Irregular cropping of image

[Magic-design]

‘‘Twas so easy in pageplus. Any chance you can make it so, in publisher?

[Alfred]

It’s pretty straightforward in the Affinity apps, too. Cover the image with a semitransparent shape such as a rectangle or a polygon, convert the shape to curves, use the Node Tool to edit it and then go to the Layers panel. Set the layer opacity back to 100%, drag the shape layer and drop it on the thumbnail of the image.

[magicdesign__]

thanks for your feedback - i tried that and it didnt seen to work. Not sure what i was doing wrong. I found that there is a 'paste inside' option, which is a workaround. still not as good as having an irregular crop tool though. 

[Alfred]

23 hours ago, magicdesign__ said:

thanks for your feedback - i tried that and it didnt seen to work. Not sure what i was doing wrong.

Without knowing what happened and at which step in the procedure, I’m not sure either!

23 hours ago, magicdesign__ said:

I found that there is a 'paste inside' option, which is a workaround. still not as good as having an irregular crop tool though. 

The ‘Paste Inside’ option gives you a clipping/nesting result (where the ‘clipview’ object remains visible) instead of a cropping/masking result (where the cropping object becomes invisible).

 

[fde101]

NOTE: most of the below material was for Designer but in general Publisher works the same way...

 

https://affinity.help/designer/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Layers/LayerMasks.html?title=Layer masking

 

https://www.frankentoon.com/post/complex-masking-in-affinity-designer

 

 

[Magic-design]

Thanks for the links