Klangrede
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3 minutes ago, JimmyJack said:
Yes, if you paste as you did and go directly to the wand and click next to the image the selection will be a phantom of the canvas size of the original. Clicking outside the size of the original canvas selects nothing.
Why is that? For whom is that a good thing? Why doesn't it just select what you actually selected? Hm... I guess it is good for something.
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5 minutes ago, R C-R said:
I am not quite sure I understand what you mean about restricted space. While the last several comments were being posted, I created this comic partial.afphoto file from an enlarged section of the OP's screenshot of the multi-panel document. I made a rectangular marquee selection of the left side panel (included in the file as spare channel), copied that selection, & pasted it into this comic partial pasted.afphoto document (history included). I added a black background fill layer, but regardless of that I can move the pasted pixel layer anywhere on (or off) the canvas, so I assume you mean something else, right?
Thank you, R-C-R, for taking the time.
As I wrote above, I have done this sort of thing multiple times without a problem: copying, pasting, moving, selecting the space outside using the wand tool, filling that area etc.
I think the particular problem here comes from the fact that I take these single panels of a comic from a huge display of the whole story on one page. Let me refer to it as the Huge Original below.
So, for some reason Affinity in its non-destructrive policy choses that single small panel, but obviously also the information where on the Huge Original it was.
Since one doesn't see what is not on the canvas in Affinity, you will not realize any problem as long as these small panels are not from the edge of the Huge Original.
Now, when that small selected single panel originally was, let's say, at the left edge of the Huge Original, then gets pasted into the new document, it seems to carry the information that there is nothing to its left with it.Pardon my really not very eloquent description. It's getting kind of late over here and I am (obviously) not someone doing these things professionally.
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2 minutes ago, JimmyJack said:
Hmmm, not sure what you're showing me there. But do whatever gets you there
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Okay, what it shows is this:
the black part was filled using the bucket tool. The rest, again was not recognized as part of the layer. I could not access (color/fill/select) any part of the transparent area to the right before rasterizing the layer.2 minutes ago, JimmyJack said:And.... you can assign any shortcut you want.
I am ashamed. I should have found that myself. Thank you!
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@JimmyJack: Well, actually not really, unfortunately (see screen shot).
However, the rasterizing is not so much more of a headache.
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2 minutes ago, JimmyJack said:
@Klangrede A couple of things in no particular order:
1) why not just put a black field covering the canvas below everything? That way you don't have to keep filling individual layers.
Absolutely, this is what I would usually do. In this case there are also layers of text which change with the pictures — well a bit more complicated, as I just realize.
However, I see your point, but prefer to do it with complete layers (complete in the sense of: the areas arount the panels filled black).2 minutes ago, JimmyJack said:2) I don't think I'm following the problem in your last picture posted. The layer selected in the panel is not visible. But the bounding box suggests it covers the whole canvas. And the thumbnail suggests all the area around the image is black.
You are right. Though the correct layer is visible, the wrong one is selected in the list. So the bounding box is not that one of the visible layer. Pardon me, my mistake.
2 minutes ago, JimmyJack said:3) fwiw.... if I copy and paste imagery into a new doc, I get the same restricted space as you do (agreed, it's a bit weird). BUT, instead of using the wand tool to select the space after pasting, go directly to the bucket fill tool and click anywhere around the pasted image. So now instead of adding a step (rasterizing) you now save two steps
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WOW!
Many thanks for that!
For whatever reason, I never really checked out the bucket tool (is it that I come from Photoshop? maybe)!
Merci, merci, merci! -
33 minutes ago, Pšenda said:
@Klangrede Posts can be edited, so you do not have to add more and more.
Pardon me. You are right.
Didn't think about the fact that adding new comments might be an inconvenience. -
I JUST found out another strange thing. There is at least a way to access these "dead corners" seen in the screenshots above.
When I "rasterize" the layer, I can then select these areas using the rectangular marquee tool and fill them black.
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15 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:
I am guessing the jpeg is somehow corrupted. Just try one more thing and after pasting select the move tool the arrow invoked with a V keystroke and see what sort of selection box you get. For me copying with Copy Merged only did some, what I consider, odd placements in the new document. But the bounding box in all instances was just what the marquee tool selected.
It selects the empty part to the left as well. As you can see here.
I did encounter problems like this before (that Affinity copied more from a JPG than what I had selected), so I am doubtful that it is this particular JPG.
Also, this JPG was produced using Affinity already. But who knows. Maybe it was not properly flattened or something.
But this one is going to become a somewhat bigger project and I do not want to be forced to redo the whole thing again.Generally, I don't get what the advantage of this nondestructive copying/cropping etc. is...
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10 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:
From where are you copying these 'squares'. How are you selecting the square when you copy it. Could we see the layers studio in your screenshots.
And the document I copy the panels from is a JPG — so it theoretically should not contain information on whre on the page that is from, correct?
And I copy it by using the Rectangular Marquee Tool, of course. -
»How are you selecting the square when you copy it.«
I have tried it both ways: simple copying and "copy merged". -
Hi Bruce, here is a screenshot of the original file. Is it that what you need?
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I am sure it has to do with this (to me solely annoying) decision to not work destructively. I have noticed this issue with annoying leftovers when cropping a file.
Leftovers outside the canvas.
So far I was really all praise of Affinity. And I hope these issues aren't bugs but my fault and there is a way to actually delete/crop something destructively.And — this is the pressing issue — to make a pasted slice independent of where on the previous document it was.
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This screenshot should show the problem better.
Plus: yes, I have done several restarts, also one with the ctrl key pressed and having cleared EVERYTHING.
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Hi,
I have a problem to which I can't find a solution.
I am trying to build a layered document. Each layer contains a panel of a comic strip, a headline etc.
I have done so a number of times, never encountered tha problem before.Now this (see picture):
1) I copy the comic strip panel from another document, paste it into this document, align it to the center.
2) Then I try to select everything around the pasted panel to turn it black. For that purpose I click with the Wand tool into a space outside the panel.
Theoretically (and in all cases so far it did so), it now should select the entire space outside the panel.But, as you can see from the selection lines: it leaves out a space on top of the document. There is no way to select this part. WHY?
I found out that the non-recognized space may have to do with where on the original document the square panel was.
So in this case it was close to the upper edge of the page. Hence there was nothing above.
Therefore I tried to not just copy the panel from the old document, but to copy it using the "Copy Merged" method.
That did not do the trick.
Can anyone help me with this? Thanks in advance!
Stephan
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1 hour ago, Dan C said:
Hi Klangrede
This isn't currently possible, but has been requested previously before and is something we plan on implementing in a later version!
Thank you — and I look very eagerly forward to the glorious day this will be implemented.
This would really save SO MUCH preparation time (I estimate about a fifth of the time I spent on reworking pictures): if one wouldn't have to change each and every tools presets for each document one opens! -
Merci, R C-R, found the Crash Report. Will try to send it next time.
And simultanously find out what caused the crashes myself to try to avoid the situation. -
Okay, back to the crashes. It happened again.
Since Affinity doesn't give a reason for its crashing, it is really hard to tell why it does.This time it was while I was opening 12 JPGs (one multi-layered aphoto file was open before).
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@R C-R: Thank you, that sounds like a reasonable explanation. Hopefully, the desire to sort the tabs will be accepted as a useful demand one day soon.
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Dear all,
is there a way to save certain preferences for the Tools in Affinity Photo?
I would particularly appreciate if there was a way to not having to change Mode and Tolerance when using the Magic Wand Selector (it always jumps back to "New" and "20% Tolerance".Also (I assume this question has been asked before, I will check the history): is there a way to export files in 600dpi and more?
I was told it is considered to be unnessecary nowadays (becuase pixels are all that counts); however, a number of organizations/firms still require "hi-resolution files of 600dpi or more" and I am tired of the discussions with them.Thanks a lot!
Stephan
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Thanks, MEB!
This would be such a welcome improvement!
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Thank you very much!
So far it seems to have worked. No crashes for hours already. Nice feeling.I maybe should open a new topic/thread for another question I have (and will, if I don't get a reply here), but is there any chance to fix the following mystery?
When I open a number of files simultaneously, they never appear in any order as tabs — neither alphabetically nor chronologically etc.
If I rework a number of photos I shot at the same evening, it would be extremely useful to rework them in the order they were shot. But I always have to look through all tabs, which opened in completely arbitrary order (as it seems).
Is there any way to sort the tab order in Affinity?
I am skeptical there is, because this very same problem also existed with Photoshop, so there might be something in the background that prevents this in any application. But what?
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Hi MEB, thank you very much! Will try this as soon as I am back at my desktop!
There is not much User Data the app can have stored (because it looses all set preferences after each crash anyway), but I assume it may be a good step to try out anyway.
Will report result. Thx again. -
Affinity crashes at least ten times a day (often more than 20 times).
Independent of what I do, or WHETHER I do anything. Can anyone think of a reason?So far I could not detect any connection between something I do and the crashes. As written above: it even crashes while I am away from the computer.
Thanks a lot,
Stephan
ps: I use Affinity since November 2018 on a Mac desktop (iMac, High Sierra).
I also noticed that Affinity always resets all preferences (wand size etc.) when crashing.
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pasting problem
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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I have these all the time. Restarting the program helps.
There are a number of bugs that appear after a few hours of working on a project (regardless of savings in between, which one early on learned to do as often as possible with Affinity, because it used to crash all the time).
Obviously not a programmer myself, I assume that phenomenon is very familiar with programmers.