Alex_M Posted September 12, 2019 Posted September 12, 2019 It would be very helpful if we could grab the crop tool at any point on the 4 sides of the rectangle, currently, we are able to grab it by the 8 the predefined points which is not always ideal because sometimes I need to zoom in very close at a certain point of the image and the 8 predifined points are often out of view. This is already possible in Photoshop so it should also be possible in Photo IMHO. raptor, bures and IPv6 3 Quote Aleksandar Mitov www.renarvisuals.com CGI and 3D rendering services email: office@renarvisuals.com Affinity Photo 2.6.3 ◾ Windows 10 Pro x64 ver. 22H2 ◾ AMD Ryzen 9950X 16-core + 96 GB DDR5 ◾ GeForce RTX 5090 32GB + driver 572.83
GarryP Posted September 14, 2019 Posted September 14, 2019 I like this idea as it could be very useful - the drag nodes are often not where I want them to be - but I would like to suggest a slightly different technique. Instead of allowing the user to be able to drag anywhere on the Left, Right, Top, Bottom (LRTB) bounds of the crop box, the drag handles on those extents could be moved to always be in the centre of the visible portion of those extents. That would give the user the extra functionality – or, to put it another way, would not have the user losing functionality – while also not making the entire crop bounding box a ‘live’ draggable item. If this was done, it might also make sense to extend this functionality to bounding box dragging in general for all layers. See my attached crude mock-up where the drag handles (red circles) on the right and bottom of the layer always stay at the centre of their bounding lines within the canvas (light-blue rectangle) no matter the zoom extent. This could be the default way of handling LRTB drag nodes on all objects with a bounding box on all Affinity applications giving a more consistent UI. I believe this would give the user a better experience overall as they would never have to go searching for a drag node while not also having a ‘totally-live-and-draggable’ bounding box. Alex_M: Does this suggestion meet with your approval, or is there a reason why it wouldn’t work for you? bures and damdam 2 Quote
Alex_M Posted September 14, 2019 Author Posted September 14, 2019 Yea, this could work too, but I'm no UI or UX designer so I can't give any expert opinion. Although either will still be better than the current situation. Quote Aleksandar Mitov www.renarvisuals.com CGI and 3D rendering services email: office@renarvisuals.com Affinity Photo 2.6.3 ◾ Windows 10 Pro x64 ver. 22H2 ◾ AMD Ryzen 9950X 16-core + 96 GB DDR5 ◾ GeForce RTX 5090 32GB + driver 572.83
GarryP Posted September 16, 2019 Posted September 16, 2019 It would be interesting to hear if any other applications do a similar thing to what I suggested or, if deliberately not, what the reason is for not doing it. There’s a chance that my suggestion isn’t viable for some reason but I can’t think why that would be. Either way, it would be nice to be able to resize/crop things without having to scroll around to find a handle. Quote
damdam Posted July 13, 2024 Posted July 13, 2024 Coming from the post I posted here. Same concept indeed. Final cut pro has a similar behavior on how a title is shown on a clip. It sticks to the left as long as the clip is in view. Also, Figma simply allows us to resize anywhere along edges. Thanks @GarryP for bring me here. Now I wish Affinity UX/UI designer would stop by and consider this useful implementation. Quote I use Affinity Suite mainly for graphic design (product label, poster, banner, logo, guidelines, reports). I'm also interested in video editing (Davinci Resolve), 3D for mockups and various concepts (Blender). Hardware: iMac 2020 (20,2) MacOS 15.3.2 (24D81) Sequoia — 3.8 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i7 — AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT 16 GB — 64 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 Software: Affinity Designer 2.6.2 | Affinity Photo 2.6.2 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.2
carl123 Posted July 13, 2024 Posted July 13, 2024 Note: For anyone coming to this thread "4 years later", the crop tool does now allow you to resize the crop "anywhere along the edges" HCl 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
damdam Posted July 13, 2024 Posted July 13, 2024 That's cool :-) Waiting for Affinity Designer resizing to have the same functionality then :-) Quote I use Affinity Suite mainly for graphic design (product label, poster, banner, logo, guidelines, reports). I'm also interested in video editing (Davinci Resolve), 3D for mockups and various concepts (Blender). Hardware: iMac 2020 (20,2) MacOS 15.3.2 (24D81) Sequoia — 3.8 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i7 — AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT 16 GB — 64 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 Software: Affinity Designer 2.6.2 | Affinity Photo 2.6.2 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.2
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.