AlexisSorbas Posted October 22, 2018 Posted October 22, 2018 Hi, I recently started with Affinity Photo, so I still have some hurdles to overcome. I tried to crop a picture with the crop tool and a certain aspect ratio. I chose the aspect ratio, but I want to change the size of it. Now for my question: How can I keep the aspect ratio, since transforming the rectangle changes the ratio... how can I fix the ratio, when changing the size of the cropped area? Thanks edit: Got it, I didn't choose a ratio, but a fixed size. My bad! Quote
Staff MEB Posted October 23, 2018 Staff Posted October 23, 2018 Hi AlexisSorbas, Welcome to Affinity Forums With the Crop Tool selected go to the context toolbar and change the Mode dropdown to Custom Ratio. Enter the ratio you want in the input fields immediately on the right of the dropdown. If you now adjust the crop grid on canvas it should keep the ratio you have set. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
chenxian352 Posted November 1, 2018 Posted November 1, 2018 Can it keep aspect while pressing Shift? Like, after select the preset 1024 x 768, I can resize the crop area pressing shift to keep the aspect. After select 1024 x 768, once I adjust the handlers it won't keep the aspect. Very frustrating. Steve.leach 1 Quote
Staff MEB Posted November 1, 2018 Staff Posted November 1, 2018 Hi chenxian352, Welcome to Affinity Forums Have you changed the Mode in the context toolbar to Custom Ratio? If you do so it should keep the ratio without pressing any modifier key when you drag the handles. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
R C-R Posted November 1, 2018 Posted November 1, 2018 12 hours ago, chenxian352 said: After select 1024 x 768, once I adjust the handlers it won't keep the aspect If you select a preset of 1024 px x 768 px, that sets the crop box size to those specific dimensions of width & height in pixels. That allows you to drag the crop box itself around on the canvas to select which part of it to crop to those pixel dimensions. However, if you drag any of the crop box handles instead, you will override that preset & change the dimensions to something other than those of the preset. To preserve the aspect ratio, either use the Custom Ratio mode as @MEB suggested, or any suitable preset based on a ratio rather than on image dimensions. If you are not sure which is which, the Context toolbar will dim out the Units field for all modes based on ratios (original, custom, or preset) because ratios are dimensionless. chenxian352 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
Steve.leach Posted November 3, 2018 Posted November 3, 2018 With every new image you edit the Crop Mode reverts back to "Unconstrained". At least, could it not keep the Mode for the duration of the Affinity Photo session? Quote
kaffeeundsalz Posted November 4, 2018 Posted November 4, 2018 This has been a common feature request for quite a while now, so my guess would be that the developers are at least aware of it. Quote
R C-R Posted November 4, 2018 Posted November 4, 2018 1 hour ago, kaffeeundsalz said: This has been a common feature request for quite a while now, so my guess would be that the developers are at least aware of it. It has been mentioned a few times that they are reworking the Crop tool, but no details have been given about that, or when we might see any changes. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
Steve.leach Posted December 26, 2018 Posted December 26, 2018 Anybody have any news on reworking the Crop Tool? Quote
R C-R Posted December 26, 2018 Posted December 26, 2018 The crop tool has been reworked in the 1.7 betas, but the 'crop & resize' feature that was there in earlier betas has since been removed because it created some stability issues and/or conflicts with existing features that they say won't be resolved when the retail 1.7 update is released. It is unclear if that means the feature won't be added to a later 1.x version or what. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
lemming8020 Posted June 23, 2020 Posted June 23, 2020 Any news about this On 11/3/2018 at 9:00 PM, Steve.leach said: With every new image you edit the Crop Mode reverts back to "Unconstrained". At least, could it not keep the Mode for the duration of the Affinity Photo session? Any news about this? This is the only thing left that's keeping me from fully switching to Affinity Photo. When I work with lots of images, it's extremely time consuming for me to set the dimensions again and again. But other than that, I like AP more, than PS! Quote
jaedee Posted April 11, 2021 Posted April 11, 2021 It appears to work. (Not sure if it didn't work in previous versions). However, if you set a custom aspect ratio you have to set it as a Custom Preset in order for it to be used and automatically open (to include with new image) during the same session. If you set an Affinity Preset, they appear to automatically open when crop tool is selected. lemming8020 1 Quote
lemming8020 Posted April 11, 2021 Posted April 11, 2021 Thanks, this will be useful. But what I had in mind can be seen in the video that I just made: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hZagN4HytiK1zyBLDkIHJ1eymHQV4Tq7/view?usp=sharing When I crop an image and move to the next one, the Crop Tool resets itself. In Photoshop it remains on the set dimension no matter which image I work on. Quote
jaedee Posted April 11, 2021 Posted April 11, 2021 See Link Below. A Preset must be selected either a Affinity Preset or a created Custom Preset. Instructions or in the help selection for creating a Custom Preset. Select Crop Tool > The Settings Icon (Cog) > Select from the Ratio List > Apply https://recordit.co/TjQI7YukoQ lemming8020 and Alfred 2 Quote
Vlota Posted August 11, 2021 Posted August 11, 2021 (edited) I don't see why this is receiving so many thumbs up as an accepted solution. It's a palaver to set up and, it doesn't adapt itself to retaining the original aspect ratio, if you're working with a mixture of landscape and portrait orientated images. Why is it so difficult just to make the damned crop tool retain its previous setting, so that I don't have to reset it to 'Original Ratio' every... single... time... I want to crop an image? It even resets to 'Unconstrained' if I click off the tool and then go back to use the crop tool again, while editing the same image. I've only been using Affinity Photo for a few days and this has already annoyed the hell out of me so many times . As such a trivial to fix issue was originally raised 3 years ago and still hasn't been implemented, it doesn't fill me with much confidence in Affinity's claims to listen to user input. Sorry guys. No Sale for me, while such basic functionality is left broken for no good reason. Edited August 11, 2021 by Vlota typo Quote
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