How to Crop an Image or Photo in Affinity Designer | Clipping Mask Cut Out

Learn how to crop an image or photo into a circle or other shape in Affinity Designer using a clipping mask.
We frequently get asked how to create a vignette by cropping an image into a circle or other shape in Affinity and how to cut out part of an image. This tutorial answers these questions but goes further, explaining how to cut out an image with type, textures and brush strokes. There's also a section on how to blur the edges of a cropped image.
Watch now to see how we crop a section of an image into a mask.
Tutorial chapters:
Intro: 00:00
How to crop an image with a circle 01:12
How to add a keyline around a cropped image 02:54
Editing or extending a clipping mask 03:12
Moving an image within a clipping mask 03:52
How to add another item to a clipping mask 04:10
How to release a mask 04:25
How to create a mask with a blurred edge with a Gaussian blur 04:41
How to crop an image with a vector path/curve 05:59
How to crop an image using a compound shape 07:14
How to make a mask using type 08:56
How to crop an image using vector brush strokes 10:10
how to crop an image with a texture 11:08
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