cropping a layer in affinity photo

[arikw]

is there a way to crop only a layer within affinity photo?

[Alfred]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @arikw.

You can only crop the entire canvas in Affinity Photo. If you want to isolate part of a layer, you need to either duplicate a pixel selection or clip the canvas to a rectangle or other suitable shape.

[toltec]

1 hour ago, arikw said:

is there a way to crop only a layer within affinity photo?

Several methods.

Perhaps the easiest is to make a pixel selection and Press Ctrl + J (duplicate). That places the selection area (only) on a new layer. 

Just delete the old layer, or not if you want a non-restrictive method.

You could make a selection, invert the selection, and press Delete.

or as Alfred suggests, use a shape to clip or mask it. If you rasterise the shape afterward it removes the clipped parts.

[arikw]

thank u alfred & toltec. very useful  

[John Rostron]

You could copy (not duplicate) the layer and then use File > New from clipboard. You can then crop this as you wish.

John

[arikw]

Thank you John