Nelli Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 Hello I've an old family photo taken with the camera at an angle of 45°. The photo is thus diamond shaped rather than square. After scanning and cropping etc the family group is leaning to starboard. ie the horizon line is running from one corner to the opposite corner. I've rotated the image which essentially cuts off the corners or if resized results in the corners having a severe case of vignetting the 'view' 'rotate' option makes it look ok on the screen but doesn't save or export like that (ie a diamond shape) I suppose the question is: is it possible to rotate an image and save it in a diamond shape? PS I'm using Photo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @Nelli. Perhaps I'm missing something, but if the original photo is diamond-shaped and you want the scanned copy to be diamond-shaped, couldn't you simply scan the photo in the desired orientation instead of scanning it with the edges horizontal/vertical and then rotating it? Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelli Posted January 21, 2018 Author Share Posted January 21, 2018 Alfred Thanks, It may be that I'm not clear in my description. The original photo is stuck in one of those (useless) magnetic albums The original scan is square with other images etc which needed to be cropped out. After cropping to the border of the original photo we end up with square photo where we want a diamond shape If we were printing it would not be an issue but we want and electronic diamond shape. So if opened in another program it would be diamond shaped PS would images help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 Thanks for the clarification. The problem you're faced with, as I see it, is that all computer images are rectangular, so your diamond-shaped photo is only ever going to be a diamond in a square bounding box. (If you view your forum avatar image on its own, you'll find that it's actually square even though it's cropped to a circle here.) Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wikinger Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 Bonsoir. Pour présenter l'image en "diamant" ( losange) vous devrez l'inscrire dans un canevas dont les dimensions (largeur X hauteur) seront les diagonales de l'image d'origine. Ce canevas sera blanc. Cordialement. Nelli 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 You could crop it in a diamond shape, but obviously the picture is still square. Nelli 1 Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 30 minutes ago, Nelli said: ...If we were printing it would not be an issue but we want and electronic diamond shape. So if opened in another program it would be diamond shaped... Well in this case it also depends how that other program deals with images and their respective format. If that other program deals well with transparancy, then your best way is probably here to try what toltec shows you above, but then make the white areas of the rect bounding box transparent and save the resulting image then with transparency as a PNG/GIF image. Nelli 1 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelli Posted January 22, 2018 Author Share Posted January 22, 2018 Thanks everybody it seems that the workaround is as per toltec and v_kyr whichever works in the receiving program cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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