I'm trying to switch from Adobe. I'm hung up on printing. What am I missing?
I've a biggish photo. Document resize shows it as 19" square, 4948 pixels, at 180 DPI. I want to print on 8.5x11 paper with a fair amount of border. My Photoshop workflow for this is to go into document resize, set the view to inches, and with resample OFF change the DPI to see what I get. Then I decide from there what to do - let LR handle it, or resample the document.
In Affinity Photo, Document resize *won't change the view* when I change the DPI. I see a post here that changing the DPI won't change anything in the dialog, just change a metadata setting. Well, changing the DPI won't change the pixel count, but it sure will change the inches. Phooey. However, thinks I, maybe I can let the print dialog handle it. Having changed the DPI to 360 dpi, I would expect my 13x13" document to be half its size in inches and fit handily on 8.5x11 paper. Nope, it still shows red in the print dialog. Well, thinks I, maybe I can change the scaling. Remember, I don't want to fit to printable, I want to have some border. So I select "Scale" and set to 50%. Nothing happens. When I click out of the number window, it goes back to 100%.
Please help. Will I be reduced to exporting into something Photoshop and Lightroom can handle? That's a real clumsy workaround.
- newbie susan