MrWriter

I think this thread has run its course so I'll thank everybody for chipping in. I like AF for the liquify persona, for sure, that was one feature I used a lot in Photoshop CS5 for my portrait shots, straightening jaw lines and the like so I'm looking forward to getting to know AF as much as I did Photoshop. AF layout is different, for sure, which is probably why I'm finding it hard to learn as I have CS5 in mind all the time so I should try and forget all the CS5 interface stuff and how I used to do things and start blank with AF.

I can see the AF forum compresses and blurs out the stepping and adds JPEG artefacts.

Thanks for taking the time. This is what I get, doing the same as you.

I only zoomed in to exaggerate, make it clear, what the issue was. With a new 1920x1080 72dpi document, stepping occurs on these lines and when I export it at the same file dimensions at best quality JPEG you can clearly see them without even zooming in. Like I said, Pixelmator Pro does it, but Photoshop did not. OS not scalling.

I don't work with vectors much and I always export as a 72dpi JPEG file at a size of 1920x1020.

I didn't have this issue when I used Photoshop. Only reason I am trying Affinity Photo is my Photoshop was CS5 and only ran on older Mac operating systems. The other day I had to upgrade my OS to Catalina, which only runs 64 bit and I didn't want to get into an Adobe subscription model hence trying to find a good alternative to Photoshop. I tried Pixelmator Pro, but that does horrible stepping too, Affinity Photo is the latest for me to try, but still having stepping issues

All I need is a line about 8 pixels wide to drop down an angled edge. Maybe there is a way of just creating a line or importing a photo of a line so when I angle it this stepping issue does not happen?

I have the latest version of Affinity Photo but I've noticed an issue. When I click the 'rectangle' tool and create a rectangle and fill it with colour and then add a stroke of say 4 to 20 pixels, when I grab the 'rotate' handle on the rectangle and rotate it left or right, say 15.0 degrees, the black stroke line has jaggies/stepping, going down it, instead of a clean line. When the rectangle is perfectly horizontal/virtical the stroke line is fine, but when I rotate it a bit all the jaggies/stepping come and it looks rubbish. Any way I can stop this happening?