Erikxtz
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Andrea Andrea reacted to a post in a topic:
Merging layers causing blurring
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Artem M reacted to a post in a topic:
Merging layers causing blurring
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I agree, for example if you are working in 3D, you simply find that in 3D there are more complex problems that you can´t even imagine in "simple" Photo software. You don´t need waste your mental energy to concentrate on things like "I have to rasterize it every time, I have to rasterize it every time". Why would I do that? I don´t have time for this, I rather spend my money for software where I don't have to deal with such trivial things. I hope that Affinity will do something with this issue in near future.
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The conclusion with this issue: I need to concentrate to creativity, not on "rasterizing layers", I don´t need to even think about it. This whole idea of rasterizing and "wannabe non destructive editing" is stupid, because all of this leads to destructive editing on a pixel level. Thats a pity that Affinity isn´t still alternative to Photoshop to Pro users. Affinity is maybe good for common photo editing, not for pixel precise art yet. I will be back in half year, and maybe Affinity team will make something about this.
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It is almost impossible have nonstretched image with whole pixel value on both sides If you scale down any image you will have one side whole pixel and other side will be non-whole pixel. If you want to have whole pixel value on both X/Y sides you have to stretch it. So final result is that you need to rasterize layer before merging as a rule, Affinity photo simply cannot work user-friendly with merging non rasterized layers, it is confusing behaviour. Or can you imagine researching every sigle layer if the layer is stretched or have whole-pixel value in any advanced photo manipulation? Not in real world
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Here is file with unstretched original ratio layer (only changed size to fit canvas) - and it behaves the same. Blurried-textures-original-photo-original-ratio.afphoto
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Here is - simply copy that layer and merge selected and you will see it Blurried-textures-original-photo.afphoto
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Here are scrrennshots: 1. Screenshot-original-texture.png 2. Screenshot-merged-texture.png 3. Screenshot-merged-10x-texture.png (it is insane) It seems that this behavior is dependent to uderlaying layer - if underlaying is rasterised, then merging is OK, if not then merging causing blurriness and pixel size change (it goes to "not whole pixel")
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I have alligned image by whole pixels as well as whole document, settings are force pixel alignment ON, move by whole pixel ON. The result of merging two same layers 1624 x 1082px with no transformation (only copied over each other!!!) is layer which have size 1623,4 px x 1081,4 px!!!!! Update: I found that solution is rasterize layers, but I miss the point of this Affinity behavior.
