How can i cut a part of picture?

[konimin]

Hi,

 

Some hours after,... is someone can help me to know how i can cut a part of picture (for example an half). I can't find the good tool to select et to cut. Thanks.

[MEB]

Hi konimin,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

Which program are you using, Affinity Designer or Affinity Photo?

 

In Affinity Photo you can use the Crop Tool for this (fourth icon on the toolbar). Select the tool, drag the control handles around the crop grid to adjust them and position crop grid itself dragging it from inside the crop grid area then press Apply on the top left of the context toolbar (the blue button). Here's two video tutorials that may help:

- Cropping: Practical

- Cropping: Aesthetic

 

In Affinity Designer you can also use the Crop Tool, selecting the image/object then adjusting the crop controls around the image as you see fit but the crop tool here is object-based and so only crops the selected object and not the whole document as it does in Affinity Photo.

[konimin]

Thank you for your answer, but my problem is to cut for selecting an half of the picture in the diagonal.

[Asser82]

Thank you for your answer, but my problem is to cut for selecting an half of the picture in the diagonal.

 

Diagonal, so that you have two triangles afterwards?

[Alfred]

Thank you for your answer, but my problem is to cut for selecting an half of the picture in the diagonal.

 

Choose the Rectangle Tool and draw a rectangle the same size as the picture. Convert to curves (by pressing Ctrl+Enter on Windows, or Cmd+Return on a Mac) and then switch to the Node Tool and click on one of the four corner nodes to select it. Press the Delete key on your keyboard to delete the selected node, leaving you with a triangle. Now go to the Layers panel and crop the picture to the triangle shape by dragging the triangle layer onto the thumbnail of the picture layer.

[konimin]

Choose the Rectangle Tool and draw a rectangle the same size as the picture.

 

Ok i ve done it.

 

Convert to curves (by pressing Ctrl+Enter on Windows, or Cmd+Return on a Mac)

 

Nothing happening

 

and then switch to the Node Tool and click on one of the four corner nodes to select it.

 

Not more

 

Press the Delete key on your keyboard to delete the selected node, leaving you with a triangle.

 

Not more

 

Now go to the Layers panel and crop the picture to the triangle shape by dragging the triangle layer onto the thumbnail of the picture layer.

 

Lost

 

 

 

[R C-R]

konimin,

 

You still have not said which Affinity app you are using.

[Alfred]

 

Choose the Rectangle Tool and draw a rectangle the same size as the picture.

 

Ok i ve done it.

 

Convert to curves (by pressing Ctrl+Enter on Windows, or Cmd+Return on a Mac)

 

Nothing happening

 

The same keyboard shortcut should convert the selected object to curves in either app, but you can also do it by going to the Layer menu and choosing the command 'Convert to Curves'. When you do this, you should see the node handles changing their shape from round to square, and in the Layers panel you should see the label '(Rectangle)' changing to '(Curve)'.