#Affinity photo crop to selection how to#
#Affinity photo crop to selection pdf#
#Affinity photo crop to selection professional#

Make a new document, at the same size, and export this as a PDF with whatever crop and other printer’s marks you want. There’s no need for crop marks without bleed that extends beyond them. Which sounds great but while Photo will add crop marks, it won’t extend the background past those crop marks, which makes the exercise somewhat pointless. If you click the More button at the bottom of the PDF export pane, you’ll see a range of additional options including the ability to add bleed, crop marks, and other printing marks.

#Affinity photo crop to selection professional#

Choose PDF from the list of export formats at the top of the dialog you’ll probably want to leave the DPI setting to 300, which is standard for professional printing. If you’re saving a press-ready file, you’ll want to export it as a PDF file so that the text remains crisp. The default is JPEG, and there’s a handy addition here in the Area pop-up menu (not found in Photoshop) that allows you to export just the selected area, with or without a background. Use File > Export to begin the export process. You can adjust leading and tracking using the same keyboard shortcuts as in Photoshop: Option/Alt and the left/right cursor keys to change the tracking, and the up/down cursor keys to adjust the leading. You can choose your font from the Font field top left, and as you move the cursor over each font in the list it will change in the document. When you’ve finished, don’t hit the Enter key as you would in Photoshop, as this will add a paragraph break instead, hit the Esc key to finish editing the text. After selecting the Text tool, you drag it to set the size of the text, and a letter A shows the scale and font.

Photo offers a significant advantage over Photoshop when it comes to adding text. To make the job easier, though, Photo gives a preview of what will be erased when you hover over the relevant area, so you can delete the white without risking removing part of the sax. To erase bounded white areas you need to click and drag inside them.

Unlike Photoshop’s Background Eraser tool, the Photo equivalent has no way of setting its mode to Discontiguous. The Background Eraser Brush does a good job of removing just the white, while leaving the rest of the sax intact. It’s best to use a hard-edged brush to delete the white from this layer. Instead, you have to use the Background Eraser Brush, found nested behind the regular Eraser brush. Although this is a photo library object with a clipping path, there’s no way to access it within Affinity Photo. Once a background image has been added, it’s clear that the white background from the saxophone needs to be deleted. Click and drag to place the image at the size you want. You can add images to Photo via copy and paste, or using File > Place. Note that Photo allows you to include margins in the document: I’ve set margins of a quarter inch all round, so the text doesn’t go too close to the edge.

Step 1: Create your documentĬhoose New from the File menu, and scroll down the list of presets till you find the size you want (although you can, of course, create a document at any size you like).

#Affinity photo crop to selection how to#

Here, we’ll look at how to create a CD box insert using a default template, and export the resulting file in a press-ready format. Affinity Photo is a worthy alternative to Photoshop, with much of its popularity arising from the fact that it’s available as a one-time purchase, rather than a monthly subscription.