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Sherlyn Faught

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Jan 17, 2024, 11:47:01 PM1/17/24

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The sidebar (which can be toggled on and off), houses some additional settings for your cropped image. Next to the target format, you can change the filename, set the DPI, and for JPG and PNG images, you can also set the desired image quality. The latter can have an impact on the file size of your image. The lower the quality, the smaller the file.

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Then it suddenly occurred to me that all I really need is to regenerate my Adobe-brainwashed synapses and give myself in to the Affinity workflow by simply rethinking some ways how to do things. The Affinity crop tool is quite powerful. It just works differently. Meanwhile, I've finished my "crop tool transition" successfully.

Hi @San Lee, @I just want copy selection,
Welcome to affinity Forums
Thanks for your feedback. Is there any other reason/workflow/use case besides being able to crop from arbitrary/non-rectangular selections for this request which can't be performed using Affinity's Crop Tool?

@Alfred
That's not the same: crop to a selection acts on the whole image(layers) whereas copying a selection and using the New From Clipboard command only pastes the content of the layer that was selected.

Photoshop's cropping tool is really powerful, it crops the whole document, so all layers too. A simple Cmd + Z allows you to return to the whole file and to select again an element to be cropped (Cmd + click on a layer). And unfortunately, Affinity Photo is far from matching Photoshop for this function (but only for this part! Affinity Photo is excellent otherwise! But it is this part that prevents me from using it at work).

Thank you! That answers part of my request! Only part of it, because in my production, I also have to adjust the size often. I crop a picto, resize it to the right size, save, undo x2, and start again with another one (which can be a different size).

As someone in that thread pointed out, all that needs to be done is to make the crop tool snap to the selection if you press Enter/Return without changing the crop box (in PS it's Enter/Return to snap and preview, then again to confirm and crop). The cropping tool itself doesn't need to be changed in any way, just the input. And even the snapping is already there (Snapping - Snap to pixel selection bounds will do exacly this if you move the edges of the crop box near the selection), so all we're asking for is making this fully automatic. And at that point we could even go one step further and have an option to keep the crop a certain distance away from the boundary (i.e. boundary + [insert number] px on each side). This would be very useful when editing photos of rectangular objects (e-g- TVs) that just don't look right if there isn't a bit of background visible on each side.

And FWIW, "Export selection" isn't the solution if it's not the final step. When I was editing the TVs mentioned above, I'd often have to remove lens distortion. The quickest way to do this was to select the layer with the TV, crop to selection, and THEN deform the thing to get an uniform gap on all sides. An extra step or two can be a big deal when you'd have to do it 30+ times a day (especially since there are already several extra steps in e.g. creating a selection from multiple curves)...

You don't have to zoom out and adjust the existing default crop rectangle. Just click anywhere to draw a new one, wherever you want, at any zoom level you want. Moreover, if your snapping settings are set up accordingly, the pointer will already snap to the selection boundaries before you start to draw.

it seems ios now locks aspect ratio all the time when cropping photos - or may be I clicked something by mistake to make it like that. The question is how do I turn it off. Locked aspect ratio makes cropping screenshots very hard. Can anyone help? thanks

Apparently, freeform can be the default crop setting only for the default 4:3 aspect ratio photos. For photos using one of the built-in crop aspect ratios, the crop setting also locks to that aspect ratio until you change it (if you change to freeform and edit and save, it will still be set to freeform if you go in to edit that photo again). As indicated in the post above, when we take a 16:9 or square aspect ratio photo, it is actually taking a 4:3 photo cropped to that chosen aspect ratio. And, since it is already "cropped" to an aspect ratio, by default the crop setting is locked to the same aspect ratio, and we need to manually change to freeform. Note that if we choose Original on the left in the crop aspect setting, it reverts to the 4:3 photo we actually took, adding more around the 16:9 or square photo we might have thought we were taking.

I had changed my creative control setting to keep my 16:9 aspect as my default since I most frequently take landscapes and wanted the wider shot. But, since I am actually taking a 4:3 photo anyway, I have now turned off the creative control option and will just let it always revert to the default 4:3 with freeform crop as the default. I will just take photos in 4:3 and crop each as desired to get what looks best to me.

Thank you for participating in the Apple Support Communities. We understand you'd like to crop photos manually in freeform mode. When you first tap the crop button in Photos you should be able to drag any corner to manually adjust in any shape you want or just make sure you're in Freeform mode. This article explains more about this: Edit photos and videos on iPhone - Apple Support.

Apparently, freeform can be (or maybe always is?) the default crop setting only for the default 4:3 aspect photos. For any cropped photo, it is no longer the default. As indicated in the post above, when we set to 16:9 (or other aspect ratio) it is not actually taking a 16:9 photo, but is taking a 4:3 photo cropped to 16:9. Since it is already a "cropped" photo, when we go into crop it, it defaults to the current 16:9 crop option, and we need to manually change to freeform. If we instead choose Original on the left in the crop aspect setting, it reverts to the 4:3 photo we actually took, adding more above and below the 16:9 photo we might have thought we were taking.

I had changed my camera default to 16:9 recently since I most frequently take landscapes and wanted the wider shot. Since it is actually taking a 4:3 photo anyway, I think I will change it back to 4:3 to get the default freeform crop back and just crop each when desired to get what looks best to me.

i found a workaround. You have to click the preset ratio button & select freeform. EVERY time you edit. The new default is aspect constrained cropping. Im unable to find a way to specify the default and change it. Very frustrating as i use crop all the time, and now requires 2 extra clicks!

Every time I load in a new picture to edit it I go to the crop tool. About 95% of the time I want to crop in the same ratio that I took the photo in. I have to think that most people are doing the best they can to frame there photos the way they want them to be. Also there is no use working in free mode as default because it does not relate to printing. It only makes sense to me that the default operation of the crop tool should be set to the ratio that the document is when loaded.

If you're composing in camera, and especially if you want to keep the same ratio, why do you need to crop at all. Can't you simply resize (Document > Resize Document...) to the desired size before export, or specify the new size during File > Export?