Photo Crop

[Pyanepsion]

Hi,

I did not find the answer in the user manual. I want to crop an image. It is usually a rectangular surface, to make a new image. The answer provided by the technical support is completely useless because it does not explain anything.

Here is how I proceed with an old software, Photofiltre in old version (2012). This is about the same process more accurate and faster with GIMP 2019.

How to do from begin to end with Photo?

Thanks.

 

[mikerofoto]

One of the top tool on left panel is the “crop” tool, once selected you’ll have option as what size and format you want it on top panel.

 

[Pyanepsion]

Thank you, Mikerofoto.

So I had to actually click the Apply button! Gross cropping (on the fly) is now done.

How to realize the smart crop that will detect the "edges", here the border that delimits the page. Step before the last screen copy (5) to automatically obtain the final image (6).

[mikerofoto]

To apply the crop yes, you click apply or enter on keyboard.

Once you select crop tool (c), you can choose unconstrained, original size or custom size, to get the lock to edges, if I’m not wrong is from the red U shape magnet icon top middle bar. When you move your crop selection you’ll see a red and green line appearing meaning you’re aligned horizontal and/or vertical.

*that picture above was an image result of google search.

[Sara72]

When I want my cropped image to be permanent and not still have the ability to be moved within the cropped space, I right click on it in layers and Rasterise and Trim.

[Pyanepsion]

Sorry, but, the terms in English differ from French, which creates a misunderstanding. Can I ask in screenshot how should I proceed?

I did not understand how to remove the yellow part of this image and so crop only the white page. I imagine that it must be done with one click with Photo since softwares like GIMP and Photofiltre do it very easily. How to proceed ?

[walt.farrell]

5 hours ago, Pyanepsion said:

I did not understand how to remove the yellow part of this image and so crop only the white page. I imagine that it must be done with one click with Photo since softwares like GIMP and Photofiltre do it very easily. How to proceed ?

You have a border that is partly yellow, partly pink, and partly a gradient.

If that is what you want to remove, then no, it is not a one-click operation, as far as I know. You could:

1. Use the Crop Tool, and adjust the handles so only the white part is within the crop box, and press Apply.
2. Or you could use the Rectangle Tool, and draw a Rectangle from the upper left corner of the white part to the lower right corner. Make sure the rectangle has a fill color. Then right-click on the Rectangle layer in the Layers panel, and select Mask to Below. Then use Document > Clip Canvas.

There may be other methods that I am not thinking of at the moment.

[Pyanepsion]

Hi, Walt.Farrell.

I am a little surprised by the complication that seems imposed. The difficulty here comes from the yellow to pink gradient that imposes an intermediate step to standardize the color otherwise everything would be done in one click.

Here is what a software released in 2012, Photofiltre, and GIMP was doing long before that. There must still be such an elegant solution with Photo! Photofiltre is still light years away from Photo!

https://we.tl/t-C5lRp8XZNJ

[Sara72]

Hi,

You could try adding a white outline to the document to hide the yellow border in Layer Effects.

Click on the Effects tab, tick Outline and then click on the cog wheel for more settings: Set Alignment to Inside and increase the radios.

There is no smart bucket fill tool that fills to bounded area in Affinity programs, tho i believe it is on the road map.

[Pyanepsion]

Serif wrote me a message that will please many of us.

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We do not have a feature that you have shown in your video, but I can get it as an enhancement.

Seeing the quality of its other products, I imagine that it will certainly be much better than the video of this old competitor software, that we can for example indicate the color of border (here gray, with a margin of outlandishness).

[John Rostron]

My thoughts would be to first make a rectangular selection to encompass the text, then with the Add option selected, use the Flood Select tool to select the rest. Then, either copy the selection, or invert it and delete the rest.

John