problem re cropping to 6 x 4 or other specific crops

[mur_phy]

Have been having some success with creating my composites and have created my own .rtf for future reference. 

 

My original file if 1600 x 1200 as is the final composite. When trying to re-crop, the image size remains at 1600 x 1200 but in AP show with a large black border and when exported and viewed in another program (Faststone Image Viewer) it does not fully cover the screen and I would not think that the 1200 dimension should remain the same.

 

To test this, I opened the same original composite in DIgital Image Pro 2006 by MS and cropped to 6 x 4 which I have used for over 200 other images and the size is 1600 x 1067 and does fill the screen in FIV.

 

Of course I would prefer to not have to move the image from one program to another to accomplish this task so wonder what I am not doing correctly and would like to know what to do in order to get the result I am looking for.

 

TIA

[Alfred]

Cropping in Affinity Photo is non-destructive. You need to rasterize the image if you want the crop to be 'baked in'.

[Fixx]

If you export to common pixel formats crop certainly is baked in in export. Something else is happening here. I suspect a workflow problem (user error in other words).

[mur_phy]

Ok, I don't doubt that there is some problem but as I don't know how to rastorize nor bake in as I have never had to do either in any other program such as DIP or ON 1 a bit more info would be useful. I have tried to resize from both the edited AP file and from the .jpg in AP with no success either way but no problem to open the .jpg in DIP and re-crop.

 

Not sure where the workflow problem might be but I will try to explain what has been done.

 

I am attempting to do a composite image of a folding knife with 3 views of the knife in one composite which I have done many times with other programs for the past 16 years.

 

Image one is of the knife on its background as done in camera. I have then done various adjustments as needed related to exposure, sharpness, vignette and usually add a signature but because this is a piece that was actually photographed by a friend at my location I skipped this step.

 

Next I opened the first image to be added to the composite and did the adjustments to it and then did a square selection (I will do more testing and try other selections based upon the particular image being worked on.) From the background layer (copy) I then copied the selection and then pasted it to the copy to the base image so now had 2 images on one canvas.

 

Next, with the erase brush, I removed everything of the background of the pasted image in order for this image to appear on the base image correctly.

 

For image 3, simply did the same procedure as done for image 2 so now there is a final image with three images of the knife in different ways all in one composite. 

 

At each stage as I recall I did a save just in case I made an error so I would not have to re-do all the work.

 

I was now ready to crop the composite to 6 x 4 so that it could be printed to put into a small album. Generally I view all images on the 32" monitor but like to have a book with the small images and sometimes I will do images 9 x 6 for other books.

 

Well, as mentioned, no success with AP but by simply opening the file in DIP, there was no issue in doing the 6 x 4 crop.

 

Hopefully this explains my plan of attack and someone will be able to offer the steps to go through or suggest something I should have done and at what stage to do what is required.

 

TIA