How Do I Crop and Resize a Screenshot in Affinity Photo

[edee]

Once again - I am determined to rid my life of Adobe products. I am soooo close! 

How do I crop the screenshot, then resize the canvas without resizing the image cut from the screenshot in Affinity Photo?

I Made A Video using photoshop to better explain what I'm trying to do.

I was able to crop to the size I wanted in AP, but I can't resize the canvas after without resizing the image also - making me think I'm cropping it incorrectly for what I want to do. 

Please note: gif responses go to fast for me to follow and there is no way to pause them, but a video response or just a written response is great! Thank you. 

 

 

 

 

[creatinglightly]

Hi! One easy way I found to do this is:

1) Use the crop tool to crop the area you want (just as in Photoshop), then press enter.

2) Right click in the resulting layer, and click Rasterize...

3) Use the crop tool again to enlarge the area. That will fill it with a transparency.

Hope it helps!

[v_kyr]

When you do a crop in APh it's more like masking out all other around your cropping selection, thus after cropping to your selection do ...

1. a canvas resize ("Document > Resize Canvas"). On the canvas resize panel you have to click on the "lock" icon in order to change/influence just the horizontal or vertical size values (a no proportional canvas change), you can also select an anchor point for the canvas resize transformation.
2. Afterwards you might have to reposition the layer on the canvas accordingly (up/down etc.).

[Ron P.]

Done a short to the point screen capture showing how to do this in APhoto.

1. Crop using the crop tool
2. Go to the Document Menu, select Resize Canvas
3. Transform dialog: Select the node you want to be the anchor point. Your clip reflects you're wanting more space at the top. So chose the bottom middle node.
4. Open the padlock on the Height and Width.
5. Change Height amount by typing it into the field, hit enter.
6. Click Resize

 

 

[barbara c]

I am trying to post a vertical image in Instagram.  I have Affinity Photo.  I don't think this is so difficult to do, but I can't quite follow the YouTubes I have looked at. I have taken notes.  I know that 1080 width x 1350 height doesn't work.  I keep losing the sky of the photo.  Does anyone have suggestions as to how I can accomplish my goal to be able to post verticals that need to have the top of the image?

[Old Bruce]

51 minutes ago, barbara c said:

 Does anyone have suggestions as to how I can accomplish my goal to be able to post verticals that need to have the top of the image?

You are going to have to lose some of the side(s) of the image. Use the Crop tool and then export.

[barbara c]

Thank you "Old Bruce" for replying.  So to clarify.  I click on the crop tool.  Then I would pull in the sides.  How do I set the ratio when I export it?  Previously, I had set the ratio to 1080 x 1350.  This was without cropping.  I lost the top of the photo.  Maybe the bottom as well.  

Do I need to add a border?  

Why does it seem so complicated when I watch videos? 

Again, I appreciate you taking the time to help me.  I am going to give it a shot.

Kindest,

barb

PS  Attached is the image that I had been working with amongst many others.

 

[Pšenda]

Do you want to achieve this?
 

After Canvas resize make Rasterize and Trim.

 

Or this?

 

Or this?

 

The same result will give the procedure - Resize canvas, adjust image with Move tool (right bottom corner), Rasterize and Trim.

 

Edited January 29, 2022 by Pšenda

[Paul Mc]

Hi @barbara c just to add to what @Old Bruce has said, for any resizing where you have fixed pixel dimensions you may need to crop the image to fill the available area. If the aspect ratio of the source image is the same as the destination then you may only need to scale the image to fit. The Instagram dimensions are a bit awkward in the sense that I know of no cameras that produce images with that ratio as standard. For portrait images you could scale the image to fit the height and then crop the sides or pad the sides if the source image is narrower. Alternatively, you could scale the image to fit the width and then crop or pad the top and bottom.

If you are likely to be doing a lot of these then my suggestion would be to create a new document preset that is 1080 x 1350 pixels in size and then drop your photo into that. You can then scale the picture to fit either by allowing parts to fall outside and be cropped or to have all the image fall completely inside the document and fill any gaps with a black or white background.

[barbara c]

I want to thank all members who took the time to help me with their detailed responses in my goal to resize verticals to put on Instagram.  I am trying out the different suggestions now.

With great appreciation,

barb