Stupid question about cropping images on affinity photo

[elisedaniel]

Hi, I'm new to affinity and never used photoshop and having trouble with cropping an image. I know, I'm such a novice, but I could not find this answer anywhere on affinity tutorials/forums.

 

I'm resizing a portrait size image to a square using the crop tool. I have it exactly as I want it and I want to copy and paste it to a different project in affinity. But the crop tool is only changing the size of the canvas, so when I copy and paste the image, the entire portrait size pastes and not the square that I want.

 

Is there some sort of command short cut to make the image match what you're viewing on the canvas? Not sure why something so simple seems so complicated  <_<

 

Thanks.

[pixelrain]

Is your layer "Image" or "Pixel" ? The last one is what you want, as the first one is still a dynamic original and not completely bitmap, for manipulation purposes. You have to rasterize it first from image to a pixel layer and then do the crop. 

[elisedaniel]

Ok, thanks, now I know what "rasterize" is.  :)  Looks like command + control + R does the same thing. 

[anon1]

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/32113-how-to-crop-destructively-and-how-to-clip-mask/?p=155890

you might also want to take a look at cropping/ clipping to have some more options at your disposal  :)

 

I actually think you have to crop first, and then rasterize 

 

cheers