Richard Matthews

thank you, I'll give it a go. I think more desirable to be able to pass a picture file straight to Affinity and accept that updates are slightly more hassle

I've read quite a bit about the MSI / EXE versions and it has been puhsing my understanding. I want to be able to have DxO Photolab export pictures straight to Affinity and have tried a couple of things that have been suggested to resolve the App install matter - getting the full path, and writing the good old batch file. No luck. So: I will need to switch to the exe installation. Is this just a matter of removing the App version, and running the exe installer to install Affinity Photo 2 again, and then using my licence key in the reinstalled Affinity Photo? Many thanks Richard

Walt, I have solved the problem - I was working with a multi layer image, so when I tried to alter the size it lost the crop I'd applied. So I found flattening the image meant that Document Resize and Canvas Resize work exactly as I expected them to. Bob's your Uncle. cheers Richard

Thank you for the welcome, and for the attention to my problem Thanks Walt, that does the job - in fact creating a new file is probably a good idea as I've had to remember a 'Save As' to a new file in the process as I want to keep my large image size files for future use in whatever size. I'd have an image of 8 x 4.5 in on the 9 x 6 in canvas/paper. There is white space on the paper and that space around the image means there's a bit to go behind the cut mount so that it can be securely taped for framing cheers Richard

Hello, so a headbanging time - I do not understand how Affinity deals with the size of a picture and there multiple unhelpful terms that are used Surely, an image must sit on a canvas or document which can be bigger than the image. All I want to do is drop my image that has been cropped to a 16:9 ratio onto a 9x6 'canvas' at 300dpi to be printed on that size paper- . I may also want to put onto a 12x8 or any other size paper as necessary. I don't think I can do it. A shame because an old clockwork version of Photoshop Elements just does it, no messing. cheers Richard