vin31cer

Thanks Walt - got it. Still finding my way around the new menus

If you drag a box - text box, photo - sideways onto the desktop, no problem. However if you drag it below the bottom page of a document the content of the box disappears, leaving only the box outline.

The space between columns seems to be fixed, and somewhat wide. Is it possible to adjust the spacing, or if not can the default width be reduced.

I've just downloaded the latest beta, and went in to see if the resizing problems have been fixed. Yes and no. If I open up a new photo the units along the top are in pixels. Change the units to inches. Nothing apparently happens, but go into Resize Document and the units in the Pop Out are shown in inches. Increase the dpi setting to say 300, resize, and it works perfectly. However if I open up a new photo and leave the units as pixels, then go into Resize Document, the units in the Pop Out are shown in pixels. If I now change the units to inches in the Pop Out, change the dpi to 300, and resize, the result is distorted. Strange!

Very often I want to print a photograph to fit a standard photo frame - 6x4, 7x5, 8x6 or whatever. It isn't easy or obvious in Affinity Photo to determine what the print size of your photo is. The print pop out wastes space by telling you how big a sheet of A4 is, but not the print size of your photo. Other displays tell you how many pixels, but not dpi. The only place I have found where this info comes together is the "Resize Document" window. It should not be necessary to pull this up just to see the print size of the picture. Can we have a picture size menu item where this (and other information?) can be found, or can we have some more info in the print window?

Carrying on from above.... If you want to know the image size, as far as I can see, you either go to the pan tool and get some, but not all of the information e.g no print size or dpi info, or you go to resize document - but this is not intuitive. I think that the package needs an image size option on the pull down menu as in PhotoPlus.

I don't think that is what I am referring to. If I simply open a new picture the bar along the top - the one below the icons - gives the size of the picture in pixels and some other information. The pan tool is selected by default. Alongside this information it says "Units" with a drop down to select the type of unit - pixels, points, inches etc. Select one of these other units and I would expect the information displayed to change, but nothing seems to happen.

If you resize the document in pixels, it seems to work. If you resize the document in pixels, but alter the dpi setting as well, the document resizes, but the number of pixels is not what you would expect. If you resize the document in inches, it seems to work. If you change the document size in inches, but alter the dpi setting as well, the document is distorted It seems as though anything but the default setting of 180 dpi causes problems.

I have just updated to the latest Beta - 1.0.5.38. The information bar now changes with picture size, rather than sticking on the first one displayed. Good! However the units button seems to have no effect - change the units to e.g. inches and the display still shows pixels.

Perhaps it is an age thing, but I find white text on a black background difficult to read. I much prefer the black on light grey as in PhotoPlus

I find it confusing that when I export as a .jpg file, the final save box only appears to allow the option of save as an Affinity file. In practice is doesn't i.e. the saved file is in .jpg format as hoped for.

The top menu bar has the option of icons only, or icons plus text. I prefer the latter, particularly while getting used to the new interface. However when I close down, and then re-open the program, it has defaulted back to icons only. I would prefer it to come back as configured at close down.

If I crop a photo, the size of the crop window appears in pixels on the top bar. Very difficult to see - but that is another topic. However if I load up a second photo, the crop window can be altered, but the size on the top bar does not change - it remains set at the value for the first photo.