How to crop a layer in Serif Affinity Photo

This guide will show you how to crop an image in Affinity Photo. This is a workaround until an “official” method exists:

 

1. Select the Marquee Tool

2. Marquee Select the area that you want to crop

3. Go to the “Edit” menu and click on “Copy Flattened”

4. Go to the “Edit” menu and select “Paste”

5. Select the “Move Tool” (Black Arrow)

6. Position the cropped image

7. Right-click on the original layer and delete it.

8. Final Cropped Image

Hotkeys if you’re into that stuff 😊:

 

M > Ctrl-Shift-C > V > Ctrl-V > Right-Click original layer > Delete Layer

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