Crop with Affinity Photo - tools and techniques

Watch this video to find out what you can expect in the "Crop in Affinity Photo" training course.

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz draws your attention to important and very helpful presets in Affinity Photo, which make working with the image editing program much easier. He also gives general tips on source images, which are sometimes more and sometimes less suitable for cropping.

Crops are always created using selections - whether by pixel selection, masks or paths. In this video, Marco Kolditz gives you general tips on how to deal with selections that are necessary for clipping.

Technical objects with clear edges and curves in particular can be easily cropped using the pen tool. In this video, you will learn how to use this tool optimally and achieve convincing results.

With the help of the QuickMask, objects with uneven contours can also be selected and cropped perfectly. In this video, you will learn how to use the paint brush tool in combination with the QuickMask to best isolate an object from the background.

Channels can also be used to quickly and easily detach certain objects from the background and crop them in this way. In this video, you will learn how to use channels for cropping using the channel mixer in Affinity Photo.

Affinity Photo offers the Background Eraser tool, which can be used to completely erase the background of an image and make it transparent. Learn how to use this destructive tool in this video - and find out from video trainer Marco Kolditz how you can still work non-destructively with this tool.

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you how to convincingly crop glass objects in Affinity Photo and place them on a different background.

The blending options in Affinity Photo are a very powerful tool that can also be used for cropping image areas - and unfolds its great potential especially in combination with other cropping options.

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz will show you how to crop a person in front of a monochrome background in the best possible way and preserve even the finest details of the hair, such as individual strands of hair. You'll also learn how to convincingly correct unwanted colored edges.

A structured background and sharpness gradients make it difficult to crop people and especially hair. In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz teaches you how to achieve a convincing result despite difficult source material.

Sometimes, when cropping hair or fur, it is necessary to add individual strands of hair to the image afterwards and blend them perfectly into the rest of the image. Watch this video to find out how to do this.

Successful cropping is only half the job - because in order to optimally integrate a cropped object into a new environment, other important editing steps are important, which Marco Kolditz demonstrates in this video.

Watch this video to find out how you can easily remove an unwanted sky, replace it with a different sky and perfectly adjust the rest of the image to the new lighting mood.

Whether light objects such as sparks or fireworks, water splashes, dust or smoke: particles can add interesting effects to images. In this video, you will learn about various ways to crop such image objects and customize them to your liking.

You can also use path objects or text to cut out areas of an image and create interesting effects. In this video, you will learn how to use paths and texts to highlight and crop image areas or even punch out specific areas from an image - in a non-destructive way that can always be adjusted afterwards.

It can be very practical if your own signature is available as a file with a transparent background to quickly sign documents in Word or PDF format or to add your own signature to your email signature. Watch this video to find out how you can easily crop your own signature and optimize it for use.