Cut Shapes vs. Mask Image/Flatten

[thelmuth (Tim Helmuth)]

I’m trying to understand why things work this way and if I’m missing a step in the process.

If I have a photo and place a circle over it and use the cut shapes function the resulting image maintains the dimensions of the original photo, but if I use the mask image function and flatten, then the resulting image takes on the dimensions of the circle. In my mind I would expect the second behavior in both operations.

Reference image

After Cut Shapes

After Mask/Flatten

[misken (Melvin)]

I remember a discussion about this topic. I will search if I can find it again.

Edit: found it: Any way to reset shape/image bounding box?

But reading it again, it was solely about the flattening, I think, not about the cut shapes function. So it’s been a slightly different topic.