tariq Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 I often use the crop tool. It would be incredibly helpful if it could be aligned / snap to common objects and guides. For example: snapping to objects. snapping to edge aligning to centre of document That last one would be incredibly helpful. Currently cropping is entirely manual I believe. Mr. Doodlezz, Patrick Connor and Frozen Death Knight 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 The latest Mac beta, released today, says... -The crop tool now obeys the global snapping enable state. But I have no idea what that means as it is not available on Windows at the moment Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 1, 2019 Staff Share Posted February 1, 2019 Hi tariq, The current retail version already snaps to guides and pages/canvas edges. Just make sure Snapping is enabled (along those respective options in the Snapping Manager). Snap to objects and page/canvas midpoints are not supported. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tariq Posted February 1, 2019 Author Share Posted February 1, 2019 thanks - I tried it and yes it does snap to edges .. but not the centre of the canvas .. is this possible? cutting out the centre is a very common use case Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 1, 2019 Staff Share Posted February 1, 2019 No, currently it doesn't snap to the centre. You have to do it manually. I will log this. Frozen Death Knight and Fixx 2 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tariq Posted February 1, 2019 Author Share Posted February 1, 2019 ok - is there a recommended way of doing this with some accuracy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 1, 2019 Staff Share Posted February 1, 2019 Hi Tariq, Here's a couple ways: Using the Crop Tool - before entering cropping, drag a horizontal and vertical guide to the middle of the canvas to mark the centre of the canvas. - set the Mode to Original ratio (if you need to keep the ratio otherwise leave it in Unconstrained mode) - set the Overlay dropdown to diagonals - use the diagonals's crosses and the crop frame's handles to help you align the crop frame with the guides to centre the crop frame (if you scale the crop frame you have to re-adjust the position again - it's not dynamic but may be enough for some situations - check the method below for a more dynamic appraoch. Using a rectangle shape as a clipping frame - draw a rectangle shape the size of the canvas - in the layers panel drag the image over the rectangle shape (not over the thumbnail of the layer but over the label area on the right) - change to the Move Tool, select the rectangle in the Layers panel and tick Lock Children in the context toolbar - press and hold ⌘ (cmd) (or CTRL if you are using Windows) and drag one of the corners of the rectangle on canvas to scale from the centre (also press shift simultaneously if you want to keep the ratio) until you are happy with the "crop area" - go to menu Document ▸ Clip Canvas - optionally rasterise the rectangle layer if you want to get rid of the cropped (hidden) parts and flatten the layer. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tariq Posted February 1, 2019 Author Share Posted February 1, 2019 thanks! that's helpful (I'll add this as a suggestion as it should be quick) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Doodlezz Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 Hey guys, the alignment/snapping of the frame with objects on the canvas has been missing here for quite some time, if I remember correctly I already asked for it several years ago – because almost all tools have the possibility to constrain each other, except the Crop Tool. I would really love to see the option to align the crop frame to objects on the desktop soon – it would be incredibly helpful to save further steps and workarounds in the workflow. Cheers MrDoodlezz tariq 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Doodlezz Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 Hey guys, I have to come back to this topic because it's really bugging me right now. MEB, are there any plans to implement the function "snap to level/object" at some point? It's not very intuitive to create a guide that's only needed for 2 seconds, but which will hang around in the document afterwards, unless you open the Guides Manager and delete it there. Please … consider improving that! Greetings MrDoodlezz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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