Designer - vector crop to size

[67bmer]

I am using Affinity Designer for Mac.

I have a vector icon that I have sized to .3inches wide.  I would like to crop it to .4 inches tall and then place it into another vector shape.

I have seen youtube videos where Photo has a context menu that can select ratio, dimension, pixels, etc. In Designer, I can NOT find anything similar.  It seems like its only hit or miss by looking at the resulting size in the transform box.  Dimensions are not even shown "live" on the screen.  I have tried unlinking the dimensions and entering values, but that does not work either.

[firstdefence]

In Affinity Designer βeta 1.7.0. you have a fighting chance as it shows the sizes near the cursor as you resize. Zooming tight up will help you increment the size in .0x steps more accurately.

But, seriously Affinity why on earth would you design a crop tool to be like this?

 

[Alfred]

Why not simply draw a 0.3″ × 0.4″ rectangle and position it over the icon on the canvas, and then go to the Layers panel and drag the rectangle to the masking position for the icon layer (i.e. dropping it onto the target layer’s thumbnail)?

[67bmer]

On 5/8/2019 at 2:07 PM, Alfred said:

Why not simply draw a 0.3″ × 0.4″ rectangle and position it over the icon on the canvas, and then go to the Layers panel and drag the rectangle to the masking position for the icon layer (i.e. dropping it onto the target layer’s thumbnail)?

I am a newbie at this type of thing and Affinity Designer!  Could you PLEASE post some more detailed instructions on how to do this?  I can not figure out how to do what you describe!  I have the book they sell but did not see this technique adequately explained there either.

I have another concept that I want to try that could possibly also use what you describe.  I want to put several "windows" in a rectangle to reveal the image behind for a graphic.  Perhaps think of looking through a 4-pane window and seeing a landscape image, but I want to shade each of the 4 panes (holes) individually.  I definitely want holes in the rectangle.  I would then add transparent filters in each of the holes.

[ALEXNADER bORG]

I have resize my photos and ready to transfer then on a photo album for printing but when I do the transfer I end up having the photo bigger then the transfer page .

how do I need to export the document  save and resize my photo before I do the transfer. order of album on line.

Thanks

 

 

[Alfred]

On 6/4/2019 at 1:43 AM, 67bmer said:

I am a newbie at this type of thing and Affinity Designer!  Could you PLEASE post some more detailed instructions on how to do this?  I can not figure out how to do what you describe!  I have the book they sell but did not see this technique adequately explained there either.

This video shows the difference between clipping and masking. The process of moving a rectangle to the masking position is demonstrated between 1:32 and 1:42.

On 6/4/2019 at 1:43 AM, 67bmer said:

I have another concept that I want to try that could possibly also use what you describe.  I want to put several "windows" in a rectangle to reveal the image behind for a graphic.  Perhaps think of looking through a 4-pane window and seeing a landscape image, but I want to shade each of the 4 panes (holes) individually.  I definitely want holes in the rectangle.  I would then add transparent filters in each of the holes.

Something like this?

The window frame is just a big rectangle with four smaller rectangles subtracted from it, and then a 3D effect added to give it some depth. The picture layer is below the frame layer, masked (see above!) by a rectangle the same size as the frame so that it doesn’t spill out beyond the edges of that frame, and interposed between those two layers are four coloured rectangles for the panes, each one with its opacity set to 40% so that you can see the picture through it.

Edited June 11, 2019 by Alfred
Updated link to video