Cropping removes unwanted areas of your image for either practical reasons or better composition. Straightening simply means correcting a crooked image.
Use cropping for practical reasons or aesthetic reasons equally. For instance, an unwanted object or person can be excluded which might otherwise detract from your desired image. Aesthetically, you can balance image content in your composition so that it is more appealing to the eye.
Affinity Photo lets you crop unconstrained or to original or custom aspect ratios. For print or web delivery, you can specify common print sizes (e.g., 6" x 4") or create pixel-accurate custom crop regions, respectively.
If snapping is active, the crop area can snap to page edges and guides when being resized or moved.
Original
Portrait
Straightened
16x9
Absolute
6x4
When cropping, you may wish to work unconstrained or to specific ratios or absolute dimensions. These are some of the options available:
You can crop to absolute pixel dimensions by entering pixel width and height values adjacent to the Mode setting.
When activated, dragging on the page will orient the photo to align it with the drawn line. We recommend using a reference within your photo such as the horizon or the edge of a building.
If you're cropping to remove unwanted subject matter in your image, compositional overlays can be ignored. However, if you're looking for better composition, one of several overlays can be used.
You can quickly toggle between these overlays by pressing O.
Holding hides the crop area overlay.