prophet Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 @Dru Kepple brings up the exact technique I use constantly. I'll try @carl123's macro until we get a proper Crop to Selection option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLazza Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 @carl123 thank you! Your macro is amazing. 😁 It's absurd that we need a macro for such a basic feature, but... go figure. What I don't like about this discussion is the way some users are putting it... Like: you just need to do this (+ 10 steps of fiddling) you are using the wrong tool ... and other nonsense We all understand Affinity products are quite good. There is no need to reinforce that. However, making jokes on other users or pretending not to understand that "crop to selection" must crop the picture to the bounding box of a selection is just silly. This feature is present in basically any image editor and has been there in the open source program GIMP for 20 years as well (with one click). There is no technical issue for Affinity to create a shortcut for the non-destructive crop tool. It would just need to retrieve the coordinates of the active selection and apply those. Catshill, jeffers, Andy05 and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unzyme Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 I wonder why this topic is so value-driven. People want this feature. The crop-to-selection workflow seems to be very common. I just needed this feature yesterday, but had to do it the hard way (copy merged, new from clipboard). Jowday 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Climber Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 every week throughout the winter I take and then process about 100 pictures of the ice cliffs in my area. one of the things I do is to select the area I want to focus on and crop appropriately. I have been using PS to do this for years. I'd like to make the switch to Affinity, but this lack of a Crop To Selection functionality is a real workflow deal-breaker. Get on it folks... Kyuzo and Debra35 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catshill Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 On 2/11/2020 at 9:03 PM, TheLazza said: @carl123 thank you! Your macro is amazing. 😁 It's absurd that we need a macro for such a basic feature, but... go figure. What I don't like about this discussion is the way some users are putting it... Like: you just need to do this (+ 10 steps of fiddling) you are using the wrong tool ... and other nonsense We all understand Affinity products are quite good. There is no need to reinforce that. However, making jokes on other users or pretending not to understand that "crop to selection" must crop the picture to the bounding box of a selection is just silly. This feature is present in basically any image editor and has been there in the open source program GIMP for 20 years as well (with one click). There is no technical issue for Affinity to create a shortcut for the non-destructive crop tool. It would just need to retrieve the coordinates of the active selection and apply those. I totally get this. However I always appreciate hearing workarounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eobet Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 I also missed crop to selection today. Very finnicky to workaround. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genosse Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 On 3/16/2020 at 8:54 AM, eobet said: I also missed crop to selection today. Very finnicky to workaround. What is wrong with this software? They just cannot create this simple feature for three years? Debra35 and Jowday 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genosse Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 On 2/11/2020 at 10:03 PM, TheLazza said: What I don't like about this discussion is the way some users are putting it... Like: you just need to do this (+ 10 steps of fiddling) you are using the wrong tool ... and other nonsense We all understand Affinity products are quite good. There is no need to reinforce that. However, making jokes on other users or pretending not to understand that "crop to selection" must crop the picture to the bounding box of a selection is just silly. This feature is present in basically any image editor and has been there in the open source program GIMP for 20 years as well (with one click). There is no technical issue for Affinity to create a shortcut for the non-destructive crop tool. It would just need to retrieve the coordinates of the active selection and apply those. That's really embarrassing. Looks like they live in kind of previous century. Debra35 and Jowday 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genosse Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 On 2/11/2020 at 10:03 PM, TheLazza said: What I don't like about this discussion is the way some users are putting it... Like: Such a bureaucratic and surly core community here! I've noticed that "New from Selection" from Telegram Messenger didn't work and asked for a help, @Old Bruce just started to troll on me. Jowday and Debra35 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bokeh-ape Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 I'm very, very confused. I downloaded Affinity Photo last week (trial) and today I went to crop a photo by selection. To my surprise, it was not possible. Ive been doing this for years in MS Paint, Paint.net, GIMP, Photoshop, and any other image editor that I can remember. Why is this not an option in Affinity Photo? Its very odd. I was hoping that Affinity Photo was the software Ive been looking for (great price) but its missing such a basic feature, I'm worried its missing other features as I learn this software. Why would is this feature missing? Its been 3 years since this thread was started. Debra35 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 Would be nice if Serif cloud add an option to fit Crop tool to selection at least. Fixx and DuncanL 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genosse Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 18 hours ago, bokeh-ape said: Why would is this feature missing? Its been 3 years since this thread was started. You will laugh, but I bought this shitty software. Debra35 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottqmarcus Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Count me in as someone who wants this feature. Many times I'm doing some down & dirty icon design where I'll find a part of an image in a document and then select that part and want to remove everything else. I don't care if it's destructive as I "save as..." Please add this feature. I'm willing to risk "destroying" my original to be able to use this feature (besides virtually every other piece of software does it). Jowday and PaoloT 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!Nox Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 (edited) It's been a few years since this thread was opened. I'm coming from using a free generic software alternative, and decided to give Photo a run, since it has a very good price and I will be using Affinity Designer. I'd like to add my two cents. I've made a selection with the marquee. I've used the transform to get exactly the part of the image I want by numbers. I want my image to be 2w x 1h. I can't crop it from the selection. Ok, fine. I'll try giving your crop tool a try. I've selected the size I want to crop 2x1, but now I can't use the transform tool. I do this dozens of times a day for blog articles. For now I guess I'm going back to my old software. I'm going to try to refund my purchase, just purchased it less than an hour ago, and am really disappointed this has been an ongoing issue for two years, plenty of users requesting the feature, and no support behind it. Edited April 15, 2020 by !Nox Adding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 1 hour ago, !Nox said: I've selected the size I want to crop 2x1, but now I can't use the transform tool. Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. I'm a bit confused by that comment. If you wanted 2:1, and you've got a 2:1 crop, what do you need to transform? 1 hour ago, !Nox said: I'm going to try to refund my purchase If you purchased directly from Serif you have a 14-day return period. Details at https://affinity.store/help/#returns Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!Nox Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 @walt.farrell I want to crop 2:1 starting at Y= 120 px. While the marquee transform tool allows this, crop does not have this functionality built in. I hopped on the unofficial discord and someone helped my figure out a work around, by making a square with the transform tool and the popping the layer I want to crop into the square. Go figure, an odd way to do it, but if it works it works! Speaking with people there they tell me that in general Affinity does have decent support for its products, so that is a relief. I'm glad they have that 14 day policy, I'll try it for a week before deciding to refund. I'd love to stick with Photo since I am actively using Design (which is amazing), figure it would help the workflow having everything from the same suite. Just hope not to run into too many scenarios like this one /: - Unrelated venting My latest pet peve is I can't copy paste into paint, which means I can't then copy paste into web whatsapp to share someting without saving a file. But I know that is just me being silly and not being able to copy paste into paint is probably something most people don't do at all. Changing workflows is always stressful I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 Thanks for clarifying that, @!Nox. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuncanL Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 I've just been rummaging in the menus and help to find this basic option - only to come here to find it doesn't exist... Three plus years to not add something this fundamental seems... disappointing. Affinity Photo, you're making it very hard to like you! I'm comparing this against Paintshop Pro (my tool of choice for many years) and the number of missing simple usability features is driving me away again (for example many dialogs forget their last used settings - which is madness!). I don't want to be a misery and not give it a chance, so I'm going to use it until the trial expires and write up a list of missing things I find. I imagine that anything will just go onto a big pile of "we'll think about it someday in the future" but at least it will make me feel better! lepr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oO5Dynasty Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 Hey guys you know the selection tool allows you to select a image. Just use that tool and if you don’t know how to use the tool I have a tutorial in my channel explaining how. When I purchased affinity photo some years ago I was looking for the crop to selection feature. Now I have not used that feature in years and my work flow is so much butter working non destructively. The funny part is I still pay a monthly subscription to Adobe because I need Premiere Pro and After Effects. But I still dive into photoshop at times to edit some photos because I like their filter gallery and their oil paint filter. But I have not used Crop to selection in years because of Affinity Photo basically teaching me you don’t need that tool. Now before I get hate for this post, I’m just a friendly person who wouldn’t mind seeing crop to selection added. But in all reality you actually won’t even need it when really start mastering Affinity Photo. So don’t give up on this software it’s actually really amazing, and it will get better. Plus if they had a video editing software I wouldn’t be using adobe anymore and just put my money into Serif! whatever image you want to crop a selection to just use the selection tool. If you mess up your selection, just use the alt/option key to fix it. Crop to selection is not needed trust me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLazza Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 Nice videotutorial, but that has nothing to do with "crop to selection". oO5Dynasty 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 10 hours ago, oO5Dynasty said: my work flow is so much butter working non destructively. Sometimes one simply wants or even needs it more destructive and really get rid of parts – without loosing any other option, e.g. layers... Therefore: + 1 Agree for a Crop To Selection feature oO5Dynasty 1 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oO5Dynasty Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 24 minutes ago, TheLazza said: Nice videotutorial, but that has nothing to do with "crop to selection". Hey ty for the comment! If you apply the same principles, and just use your selection tool in what you are trying to crop out, it will work. I can make a video showcasing it if you like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oO5Dynasty Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, thomaso said: Sometimes one simply wants or even needs it more destructive and really get rid of parts – without loosing any other option, e.g. layers... Therefore: + 1 Agree for a Crop To Selection feature I hear ya, and I’m not one to mess with somebody’s workflow. What I will do is make a video showcasing work around for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tropilio Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 Long-time Photoshop user here trying this software for the first time today. So far I am really impressed, I like it very much. But... no crop to selection..?? What the hell! All the workarounds proposed here don't really do the job for me, because what I often do is I want to crop to the BOUNDING BOX of the selected area, which could be highly irregular and contain holes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oO5Dynasty Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 5 hours ago, tropilio said: Long-time Photoshop user here trying this software for the first time today. So far I am really impressed, I like it very much. But... no crop to selection..?? What the hell! All the workarounds proposed here don't really do the job for me, because what I often do is I want to crop to the BOUNDING BOX of the selected area, which could be highly irregular and contain holes. Can you give an example please? A image or a video showcasing example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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