hello I'm Robin Whalley welcome to Lenscraft today we're
looking at how to crop an image in affinity photo I'll be using the crop
tool which you can find in the tools palette on the left of the photo persona
if you open a regular image like a tiff or a JPEG you'll automatically be in the
photo persona but if you're opening a raw file it will open in the develop
persona by default if this happens don't worry the develop persona also has a
crop tool and it works in the same way unfortunately it's a destructive edit in
the develop persona so I recommend cropping in the photo
persona where possible start by selecting the crop tool by clicking on
the icon in the tools palette but you can also press C on your keyboard when
the crop tool opens it automatically displays a crop overlay over the image I
can then resize the overlay using the drag handles or I can click and drag to
draw an overlay on the image this option is only available before you've resized
the overlay once you've drawn or resized the crop if you try to click and drag it
just reposition the crop area instead if you want to reset the crop area use the
reset button in the toolbar at the moment the crop overlay shows a third
squid following the rule of thirds there are also of the grid you can select from
the drop-down in the toolbar which to use is a personal preference and to some
degree depends on the image you're trying to crop the other thing you may
notice is that my crop is unconstrained this means I can change the height and
width of the edges without any constraints it doesn't keep the original
aspect ratio of the image I can change this using the mode drop-down in the
toolbar here I can select to keep the original aspect ratio of the image
I can also enter a custom ratio for the crop
or I can select the resample option when I select resample the crop area
maintains the original aspect ratio of the image the cropped image will be
resampled to make the same size as the original image but if I want to make the
crop larger or smaller than the original image I can enter new values
something else you may want to do when cropping an image is to level the
horizon you can do this in two ways the first is by clicking outside of the
crop area with your mouse and then dragging this rotates the image around a
center point alternatively you can use the level tool which you can open by
clicking the straighten button you can then click and drag along anything in
your image that should be level when you release the mouse affinity photo rotates
the image to level the line that you drew affinity photo also includes a
comprehensive set of presets you can access these by clicking the cog icon in
the toolbar
if you define your own custom setting you can also use this to save them as a
new preset
when you're happy with your crop you can click the apply button something else
that you may not realize is that cropping in an affinity photo persona is
non-destructive after cropping if you reopen the crop tool you can click the
reveal option in the toolbar this displays the rest of the image and you
can then adjust the crop I hope you found this video helpful if you did
please share it with others and don't forget to look at the tutorial on my
website I'll include the details in the video information below I'm Robin Whalley
you've been watching Lenscraft I'll see you soon for another video