Affinity Photo - crop from both sides at the same time

[deartify]

Hello everyone,

I have a question about croping tool. Can we crop from both sides at the same time. I want to grab for example left side and resize image symetrically to the center. In PS we can press Alt key if I remember and it crops symetricaly.

 

Thank you for any ideas

[Lee D]

Hi deartify,

Welcome to the forums.

 

This feature has been requested and may be added to the app in a future update.

[DesignDex]

Has this feature been implemented yet?

I haven't been successful when I tried on version 1.7.3 with any of the Alt, Ctrl, Shift keys.

[DesignDex]

I seemed to have found a workaround for now. 

By typing in the new width in the crop dimensions you can crop with respect to the Center.

You can also crop with Documents>resize canvas and use the center anchor option.

It would be nicer though if we could use the cropping tool handles instead so we wouldn't have to do trial and error with the dimensions until we get the desired crop.

Here is a video showcasing both methods.

 

 

[BrandonZ]

Any word on the implementation of this? I tried dragging the crop tool while holding alt/option and it didn't pull in both sides at the same time.

[prophet]

Bump for this request.

[CFou]

+1, i need this pretty often

[PixelPest]

In a non-destructive way it´s:

1. draw a rectangle (no Stroke/no fill) above the image of the same size.

2. on a Mac hold down cmd-key and resize symmetrically from left or right till your liking.

3. Drag image onto rectangle in Layers Panel to use it as a mask.

BTW: in AD/PixelPersona it works as expected; crop-tool - hold cmd-key down - click+drag - release.

[edwingr]

I'm also trying to switch to Affinity Photo, but this seems like quite a showstopper. I use this very often.
Scaling and cropping with alt and shift combinations seems such a basic function to me.

Edited May 16, 2020 by edwingr

[makeshine]

I constantly need this feature. Especially when my objects are centered and I need to shave off some wasted space equally from both or all sides. 

[DUST]

Seriously.

This feature is heavily overlooked. I just made the switch and am not enjoying the extra steps and inaccurate crop that's happening without shift/alt hot key commands. Please add this in a new update. 

[PixelPest]

On 12/14/2019 at 1:24 AM, DigitalDesignDude said:

so we wouldn't have to do trial and error with the dimensions until we get the desired crop.

Scroll-wheel on the px size h+w works here as well (for fine tuning)

[R C-R]

9 hours ago, PixelPest said:

Scroll-wheel on the px size h+w works here as well (for fine tuning)

That also works for me with Shift to increment/decrement in 10 px steps & with alt/option to increment/decrement in 0.1 px steps.

[PixelPest]

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

That also works for me with Shift to increment/decrement in 10 px steps & with alt/option to increment/decrement in 0.1 px steps.

Thought it´s well-known as it works on every entry field.

[R C-R]

39 minutes ago, PixelPest said:

Thought it´s well-known as it works on every entry field.

There are a few places it does not, mostly some of the text fields like font size, where Shift just increments by 0.1 point or inch or (bizarrely) by 0.01 px, & in Paragraph Leading where neither Shift nor alt/option changes the increment.

[PixelPest]

Maybe not as consistent as I like to but afaik every entry field "reacts" on scroll-wheeling. I´m old-school and prefer typing in my values.

[Juvian]

I can't believe something so simple is missing in this app. I have been trying to switch to Affinity from Adobe CS, but damn these shortcomings are a pain and make me want to go back...

[Synergist]

2022 and this basic behaviour hasn't been implemented. Very jarring.

[km.au]

Yep, your avatar says it all. Should be a priority feature

[geometric]

I just picked up version 2 hoping they'd improved the crop tool or at least added the ability to crop to selection, but it looks like the same problems from version 1 have still stuck around. Sad that basic usability has to take a backseat to shiny new features.

[xamp]

I'm really not sure why this is so hard to implement. This is a feature that's present in all creative tools I know and here a plenty of people requesting it. Please prioritize this! It's a real show stopper for me.

[Patrick Connor]

@xamp

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums

To all the readers of this thread the 2.1 beta includes a number of improvements to the crop tool that may give you what you're hoping for.