multiple crops

[mandoman4]

I shoot people's headshots and when I do the finishing work, I like to send them multiple crops of the same image so they have a choice.  Is there a way to duplicate the image 10 or 11 different times so I can send them all the choices of the same image?

[R C-R]

Wouldn't it be simpler to create 10 or 11 or whatever slices in the Export Persona & export them to a folder? Since you probably want to send JPEG previews anyway, it seems to me this would save time.

[Friksel]

6 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Wouldn't it be simpler to create 10 or 11 or whatever slices in the Export Persona & export them to a folder? Since you probably want to send JPEG previews anyway, it seems to me this would save time.

This doesn't only save time, it's also a great way to change it later if the client wants a different crop. And you only need to have one layer in your file, so if you change the colors of the image, all crops immediately change their colors too and you only need to re-export them from the export persona (or even use the continues watcher!)

[mandoman4]

hmmm...hadn't thought about that.  I'm desperately trying to move all my work to Affinity because I'm tired of paying Adobes subscription!

Let me give this a try.  Thanks!

[mandoman4]

one more question.  Part of my cropping process is to "tilt" the pictures various ways.  I don't see a way to rotate my slice.

 

[Dan C]

Hi mandoman4

On 6/30/2019 at 3:43 PM, mandoman4 said:

I don't see a way to rotate my slice.

Unfortunately it's not possible to rotate slices in the Export Persona, my apologies.

[mandoman4]

This might be something for Serif to consider for a future upgrade.  It can't be that hard to do.  I'll have to stick with Photoshop for now or change my workflow. 

 

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, mandoman4 said:

This might be something for Serif to consider for a future upgrade.  It can't be that hard to do.  I'll have to stick with Photoshop for now or change my workflow. 

 

You could duplicate the layer and rotate it before creating the slice from it.

[dave2017]

On 7/1/2019 at 7:00 PM, walt.farrell said:

You could duplicate the layer and rotate it before creating the slice from it.

If done manually that would be more work, though still less than cropping each shot. Say 3 different rotations - 5 different slices - to produce 15 different output shots.

If a macro were used to do those steps, then it could be less work, though it would also depend on how easy it would be to set up the macro.

I don't know if macros can do switches between personas, which would be necessary.

[duncang]

Still no way to copy and paste a crop so the identical crop can be applied to two different images ?

[NotMyFault]

5 hours ago, duncang said:

Still no way to copy and paste a crop so the identical crop can be applied to two different images ?

Depends what you mean by “identical”, and the dimensions of the 2 images.

• are both images identical in size / rotation?
• Able to use vector crop (nested vector object)
• which export formt do you need (jpeg,png)?
   
• While there is no direct copy/paste for crop, we might find a workaround giving the same result by other meeans.
• one way would be to use linked files: create one container file having the intended crop. Then replace the linked image.
• The OP wanted multiple crops of one image - a different use case. 
• if we utilize image layers (from Publisher) or Artbords (from Designer), we might find other ways (in Photo).