Brent Leggett Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 The crop tool is difficult to use. I would like it to retain the sizes last entered and be able to constrain movement to one dimension (like photoshop shift move). Say I have an image in 3:2 aspect and I want to crop it to 16:9 for HD video. So I can enter 1920 hit tab and then 1080 and there my crop is, taking the full width of the image and cropping equal amounts of the top and bottom off. Great. Now I want to move it vertically to retain desired composition. If I drag it vertically, there's no way to stop the crop region from drifting off the image to the left or right which will leave a strip of background down one side or the other. So I have to reduce the crop size to be sure I don't get any unwanted background pixels. It seems the crop tool has no awareness of the image boundaries. Next I move to the next image and have to begin from the top entering the dimensions in the aspect fields. It would be better to emulate photoshop and have the aspect retained in the crop tool until it is cleared or changed. The current usage is clumsy enough to force me back to Photoshop for cropping website header images or video posters etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peternz Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 I suffer from this problem also - the crop tool does a good job default placing the crop selection on the image but usually I find I need to nudge it a few pixels horizontally or vertically - the natural way to do this would be with the arrow keys as you do to position items like text elements - but as far as I can see there is no way to do this. Am I missing something? lisa999 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted May 30, 2018 Staff Share Posted May 30, 2018 The crop tool has been rewritten for 1.7. Coming soon. Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 5 minutes ago, Ben said: Coming soon. Lots of things were “coming soon” three years ago but still haven’t arrived yet. 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...
Peternz Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Thanks - that would be good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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