chris perrins Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 In the help on Cropping Tutorial, when you click on the Crop Tool a line appears at the top of the screen including ”Mode” which activates a drop-down panel of options for pictures /pixel sizes. When I click on the crop tool I do not find the “Mode” option. Why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted January 28, 2019 Staff Share Posted January 28, 2019 Hi chris perrins, Welcome to Affinity Forums Go to menu View ▸ Show Context Toolbar to display the contextual controls for each tool right above the work area. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris perrins Posted January 30, 2019 Author Share Posted January 30, 2019 Thank you. I have done that and still "Mode" does not show! Help please Christopher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Which Affinity application are you using? The mode is only applicable to Affinity Photo, not Affinity Designer. If Photo, can you attach a screenshot of your application window? 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...
chris perrins Posted February 4, 2019 Author Share Posted February 4, 2019 Thanks, I am sure that you are right! How do I open into Affinity photo, and not designer? CMP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 Not sure if it's the same on a mac, but in Windows you can either right click on the file and choose "open with Affinity Photo", or, if you already have it open in Designer, go to File then "open in Photo". Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 You can also start Photo, then use the menu File > Open to open your file. 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...
John Rostron Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 These responses all assume that you have Affinity Photo installed. Do you? If you don't, then none of them will work! John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 4, 2019 Staff Share Posted February 4, 2019 Hi chris perrins, The Vector Crop Tool in Affinity Designer is object based, not document based as in Affinity Photo. It doesn't have any Mode or any other options in the context toolbar. Please let us know what application you are using so we can advise you better. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris perrins Posted February 4, 2019 Author Share Posted February 4, 2019 Thanks. It seems that I must be in Affinity Designer not Photo, but am pretty befuddled about the difference (you may have noticed!). I signed up to (I thought) to Affinity Photo and the tutorials (or many of them) relate to Photo. But when I open the file it says Affinity Designer 1.6.5.135. Christopher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 5 minutes ago, chris perrins said: It seems that I must be in Affinity Designer not Photo, but am pretty befuddled about the difference (you may have noticed!). I signed up to (I thought) to Affinity Photo and the tutorials (or many of them) relate to Photo. But when I open the file it says Affinity Designer 1.6.5.135. Do you have both Affinity Photo & Affinity Designer installed on your computer? If so, by default a file with the .afdesign extension will open in Designer, but you can open it in Photo instead using any of the techniques mentioned above. Also, it would help if you told us if your computer is a Mac or a PC. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 4, 2019 Staff Share Posted February 4, 2019 Hi chris perrins, With the application running go to menu Help ▸ About. It will show you which app are you running on your PC. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris perrins Posted February 4, 2019 Author Share Posted February 4, 2019 Thanks. I am using a PC. When I go to Help - About it says Designer 1.6.5.135 Christopher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 4, 2019 Staff Share Posted February 4, 2019 Ok. Thank you. In that case the Crop Tool is object based, not document based. It has NO options in the context toolbar and only crop the current selected object. The Mode control you were referring to is only available in the Crop Tool in Affinity Photo which is document based and crops the whole document as you are probably used to from other apps. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris perrins Posted February 4, 2019 Author Share Posted February 4, 2019 Thanks again Continuing with my "low IQ mode", it seems likely that I want to be in Digital Photo, not Digital Designer. How do I get there? I don't remember ever being faced with a choice. Christopher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 You can download Photo here. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 4, 2019 Staff Share Posted February 4, 2019 Hi chris perrins,Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo are two different programs. Affinity Designer is a graphic/web/ui design/illustration software while Affinity Photo is a RAW developer/converter and photo editing app (you can also use it for raster painting/illustrations). Do you have bought Affinity Photo for Windows? If so go to the Windows start menu, search for "Affinity Photo" in the input field on the bottom, then click the program's icon to launch it from the list. If you don't have it you can download a trial from directly from here. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris perrins Posted February 5, 2019 Author Share Posted February 5, 2019 Dear MEB, Thank you very much for your reply and continued patience. It now seems clear that somehow I must have purchased Affinity Designer not Affinity Photo. I made my purchase on 4/5/2017, [product key removed for privacy reasons] (note year; because I could never seem to get it working I rather gave up trying unitl recently). I have no idea how I came to get issued the wrong one especially since I was not aware that there were two different programs. What to do now? Christopher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 5, 2019 Staff Share Posted February 5, 2019 Hi Christopher, We do provide a refund when a user is not satisfied with the software within a 14 day period after the purchase but I'm afraid we can't do much in this case since the program was purchased last year. The only thing I can suggest is to send an e-mail to affinityorders@serif.com with your name and order number and explain the situation but it's unlikely they will be able to do much at this point, sorry. Note: I've removed the product number for privacy reasons. The product key is just for you to activate the program (along with the registered e-mail). Please don't share it publicly on a forum. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris perrins Posted February 5, 2019 Author Share Posted February 5, 2019 Dear MEB, Thank you very much for your reply and continued patience. It now seems clear that somehow I must purchased Affinity Designer not Affinity Photo. I made my purchase on 4/5/2017 (note year - because I could never seem to get it working I rather gave up trying unitl recently) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 5, 2019 Staff Share Posted February 5, 2019 Please check my edited reply above. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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