Photo: Auto crop/trim?

[JeffreyWalther]

Hi,

I have a bunch of pictures with a lot of white space around the object.
Is there a way to auto crop/trim the canvas? It is quite tedious to set the edges by hand with the Crop Tool.

[carl123]

Hard to say without seeing a sample of the images you are working with.

But you could try..

Filters > Colours > Erase White Paper

then

Document > Clip Canvas

[JeffreyWalther]

Thank you very much.

It is not quite that I was looking for (e.g. that background, surrounded color should not matter - here it has to be white).
But fo the moment, I can work with the workaround. Thanks!

 

[R C-R]

8 hours ago, JeffreyWalther said:

I have a bunch of pictures with a lot of white space around the object.

Do you mean photos that have borders like old style drugstore prints or something else?

[JeffreyWalther]

Example:
See first pic with its pink background surrounded.
I am looking for an auto trim which automatically captures the uppler left color (or upper right or the bottom corner colors),
and then trim/crop the canvas until something else appears (see second pic, for final result).

I am asking because in Photoshop there is such a 1-click-solution which is the only feature that I am missing in Affinity Photo.

 

Jeff

 

 

Pic 1:

 

 

Pic 2:

[carl123]

2 hours ago, JeffreyWalther said:

I am asking because in Photoshop there is such a 1-click-solution which is the only feature that I am missing in Affinity Photo.

Currently the only 1-click-solution in APhoto would be a macro

Try the attached macro on some of your images, it works on the one you supplied and others I created but I don't know exactly how varied your images may be.

The macro installs via the Library Panel not the macro panel

 

 

Auto-trim-macro.afmacros

[JeffreyWalther]

8 hours ago, carl123 said:

Currently the only 1-click-solution in APhoto would be a macro

Try the attached macro on some of your images, it works on the one you supplied and others I created but I don't know exactly how varied your images may be.

The macro installs via the Library Panel not the macro panel

 

 

Auto-trim-macro.afmacros

Thank you very much for your help and your efforts for guiding me through the process.
Yes, the macro did work with the example above, but not in other tests.

So it seems that I have to manually crop my pics until Affinity comes around with a new feature.
But thank you very much!

[Fixx]

You could use XnConvert to batch autocrop images. It is quite capable app.

[royalcrown28]

Making sprite atlas and sprite sheets is abysmal without a trim canvas feature

[madrian]

Document > Clip Canvas

 

Is there similar feature in Designer?