TomHu Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 In Photoshop I can draw a box with the marquee tool, then choose to crop the canvas to the size of the marquee. I can't find anything similar in Affinity Photo, am I missing something or is there a different way to do the same task in AP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 you could copy the marquee'd area to the clipboard and use File > New from clipboard. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verysame Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 6 minutes ago, firstdefence said: you could copy the marquee'd area to the clipboard and use File > New from clipboard. Not if you're editing a multi-layer document. Phil_rose 1 Quote Andrew - Win10 x64 AMD Threadripper 1950x, 64GB, 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD + 2TB, dual GTX 1080ti Dual Monitor Dell Ultra HD 4k P2715Q 27-Inch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomHu Posted October 8, 2018 Author Share Posted October 8, 2018 24 minutes ago, firstdefence said: you could copy the marquee'd area to the clipboard and use File > New from clipboard. As verysame mentioned, that won't work if I want to crop a multi-layer canvas. Also, if the background is transparent, this method ignores the areas with no pixels and I get a canvas size that will fit the image, but isn't the same size as the marquee selection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 If I want a very precise cropping, what I do (and it's time consuming) is to draw a rectangle above the area I want to cover, and after that, I use the Crop Tool and use the rectangle as a guide. Best regards! firstdefence 1 Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 Why not just use the Crop Tool from the very beginning? Why make things complicated? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 15 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Why not just use the Crop Tool from the very beginning? Why make things complicated? With a shape you could use snapping, for example, something that someone requested before. Best regards! Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verysame Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 18 minutes ago, Mithferion said: With a shape you could use snapping, for example, something that someone requested before. Best regards! Or, in PS I can select the content of a layer and crop that. Quote Andrew - Win10 x64 AMD Threadripper 1950x, 64GB, 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD + 2TB, dual GTX 1080ti Dual Monitor Dell Ultra HD 4k P2715Q 27-Inch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 9 minutes ago, verysame said: Or, in PS I can select the content of a layer and crop that. That could be a really quick way to do that, for sure. Best regards! Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 2 hours ago, Mithferion said: If I want a very precise cropping, what I do (and it's time consuming) is to draw a rectangle above the area I want to cover, and after that, I use the Crop Tool and use the rectangle as a guide. Best regards! Why not just drag everything inside the rectangle and then go Document > Clip Canvas ? Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 2 hours ago, toltec said: Why not just drag everything inside the rectangle and then go Document > Clip Canvas ? I didn't know that function existed in the first place. Thanks for mentioning it. Best regards! Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomHu Posted October 9, 2018 Author Share Posted October 9, 2018 17 hours ago, toltec said: Why not just drag everything inside the rectangle and then go Document > Clip Canvas ? I Initially thought this would be the solution, too, but then I tried the Clip Canvas option and have no idea how it decided to clip the canvas where it did. It completely ignored the marquee box. Here's what I started with: And here's the result after Clip Canvas: It didn't clip along the marquee at all. Not sure what Clip Canvas is supposed to do or how it works. Choosing "Unclip Canvas" after this did nothing at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 @TomHu Clip to canvas wont work with a marquee box. It only works if you clip the objects inside a rectangle (or shape). Well, as far as this sort of thing goes. Original image Rectangle on top Image nested inside the rectangle, so the rectangle clips the image. then Clip Canvas pressed TomHu 1 Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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