wim Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Dear reader, Is it possible to place the ratio 2 : 3 standard in Affinity Photo for the crop tool? This is also a fixid picture for a picture. In addition to holding it in cm or mm, it now starts with pixsels. Tank you very much if this can be processed in the update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paristo Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 The 3:2 should come by default (the ratios are read from left to right, then from top to bottom, so 3:2 is horizontal and 2:3 is vertical) but as it doesn't come, just add your own preset there and it is there then. The crop tool doesn't have at the moment the restrictions for border of the image, so it is difficult to get exact crop to edge of image, but that is changed with upcoming version. And then about the values in pixels, that is the standard when talking about resolution. But it goes to the common problem with Affinity tools that they don't remember settings but just resets to defaults. So we need something in future (and getting) that we can set something as default or the last used becomes the default. But currently the solution for that (and what is very clever!) is that you can just ignore the "Units:" box totally and just type the wanted value to the boxes. Like if you type a 40% then crop tool goes to 40% of the input box direction. The other can then be typed as another value like "200px" and it so. Example, make a normal Full HD (1920x1080px) new document > crop tool > absolute dimensions and enter values like "50%" and then "200px" and the crop tool goes exactly correctly to half of the width and 200px from the height and it will show you the crop area in the selected units (in this case pixels) as it converts those to valid values. The problem with the crop tool accepting values in physical measurement values is that the crop tool is following the document PPI factor value that is by default 72 PPI and it means that if we open a photo from camera, it is usually by default 72 PPI if not set in camera to another, and then the crop tool adjustment as is is just totally invalid before the document PPI factor is set to wanted PPI print factor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wim Posted August 19, 2017 Author Share Posted August 19, 2017 Thank you voor the explonation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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