toltec

Press Ctrl + J to put one half on a separate layer. Then move it. With this, I just made a marquee selection and pressed Ctrl + J

OK, fair enough. Are you a very slow clicker then ?

Ah, so you could be added to the list of "two long-standing members of the forum community who are absolutely determined to convert the OP to their way of doing things" ? It is not 100% accurate, you used snapshots to make a duplicate document in a "convoluted way". I have been pointing out that there is no need to make a duplicate document, Snapshots are an alternative solution. Also, I have been working hard, trying to get the number of clicks down. Stop being "so argumentative in this thread". (I've been waiting to get that one in)

Can you explain a bit more ? What tools ?

Well, not really, it's about the now. Surely it's better to offer a perfectly workable solution that works now, rather than requesting a feature that may not appear for years, if ever ? There are a few thing that I would like to see in AP now (this was always the same when using PS) but if not available, I use/used the next best option or adapt my way or working. It's no good in any sort of commercial environment not doing the job because it requires five clicks instead of three. Hardly professional. (I'm not suggesting Gary wouldn't or isn't) Personally, I think it's great to have as many options as possible. Everybody has their own preferred way of working but sometimes you have to think "outside the box". I come from an era (in the early days of Photoshop) when less than a quarter of the current options were there. But in a professional environment, the job had to be done! So that meant using the best method available now (or then). So, use what is there, request the feature and change to using that method when, or if, it appears. BTW. I don't know if you have ever tried to get Adobe to put a new feature in Photoshop ?

As carl123 says. When you drag the second file in, you have to tell Photo where you want it, based on the top left corner. All boxes, frames and pictures start from the top left. It is pretty standard. As you drag the picture in, place the pointer over the top left hand corner (see image), release and that will do it for you. If you miss slightly, if snapping is on, you can move the second image a fraction to align it to the first image. It will snap into the exact place.

Hi Gary How many clicks do you count these as, and how many less is it in PS? Document > Create Snapshot and then press Return. To Flatten or create a Merged Layer is just Document > Flatten or Layer > xxx (choose the snapshot) from New layer from snapshot. If you do this a lot, you can assign shortcut to Create Snapshot. Example, Ctrl + / Assign a shortcut to Flatten too, such as Ctrl + # (I think Flatten is what you actually want, not Merge Visible or New Layer) So, Ctrl + / then Return (makes the snapshot) Ctrl + # (flattens the document). I'm sorry, but I just don't see how that could be done any quicker or easier, no way can that be considered more than three presses or five, respectively. And take into account that you will have to manage the PS style "duplicate" file. Save it, open the filer, name it and each file variant then has to be managed and saved separately. Not to mention found when you need them later, especially with your time stamp issues. If they are snapshots in the existing document you don't have to go through any of that, Photo has managed them all for you. Just press Ctrl + S to save. Potentially a big time saver, especially if you have three or more variants. The original layers can all be recovered if you need (Restore Snapshot) and everything is in one file. So your concerns about having separate files all over the place have been solved. If you do want to split them off, just create a New Document from Snapshot, or of course, export as a JPEG or whatever. Actually, one thing that I think is clever in Photo (maybe in PS too?) assign a shortcut and the shortcut appears in the menu. I know it's only a simple thing and you know what they say about simple things . . . If you want Flatten (Document > Flatten). With Flatten document you end up with all the layers a single layer and just that. Merge Visible makes a single merged image layer above the existing layers.

Are you selecting the actual snapshot? It won't work if you click on the camera icon.

Draw it as a shape and if you export to JPEG it will be flattened to pixels on output. one 512 pixel shape, as a JPEG

Draw a vector shape. You can draw it one inch wide, print it one mile wide and the edges will still be smooth. Resolution independence

OK ?

With the marquee tool selected, you can click inside it and move it. You can use the Transform panel and enter dimensions to move, resize etc. Press Q to enter Quick Mask mode and you can move it, resize it and rotate it with the move tool.

500 pixels is rather small. A monitor is typically 1920 x 1080, so only a quarter of the width. For litho printing, 500 pixels is only just about good enough for a 2" wide picture.

If you Place an image, click and drag the place tool (circled) where you want the image and the size you want it, don't just click.

Why does it matter to them? They need educating, that's all. It seems a waste to spend hundreds on a program if they don't understand the absolute basics. Inches is a ridiculous way of measuring pixel images. And DPI stands for Dots Per Inch, not Pixels. In printing, dots can be made up of lots of dots. An imagesetter is 2540 dots per inch (or the one I used was) to print a dot for a 150 line screen, (150 Dots Per Inch) each dot is made up of 17 smaller dots (assuming it is full size). A typical 360 dpi printer may print four dots per dot, That's why people like Epson often quote 1440 dpi. And, for a display screen, how big is an inch? There can be the same number of pixels on a 50" TV or a 5" smart phone, say 1920. 72 pixels on a smart phone takes up a lot less space than 72 pixels on a 50" TV. Yet the image could be described as 72 ppi, 300 ppi, or even 600 ppi, with the same number of pixels. The only thing you can be sure of is that 1920 pixels will will the whole screen, the device ignores dpi completely. The rest is up to chance. The only thing that matters is the number of pixels.

People do ramble sometimes. Still. a lot of things get discovered. As for your feature request. For the first one, for now why not experiment with Snapshots? A slightly different way of working but one click and you have a duplicate document. Here I am working with four duplicate documents at once, each one is completely different variation. (I was too lazy to name them) Turn either into a separate document with one click. (New document From Snapshot) Or a flattened image with one click.(New Layer from Snapshot) That is far fewer clicks than Photoshop ? i.e. just one or two,.It does everything you want, and more and requires less clicking. All the duplicates are in one place (in one file), so it makes them easy to keep track of..In fact, each Photo document becomes a complete duplicate file, creation and management system in one. Personally, I think that is far better than unsaved duplicates scattered here there and everywhere. It does require being willing to learn a new technique. I know it's hard to let go, I struggled at first, but then, age is my excuse

You can't snap the crop tool to the grid. It does not work yet. You can snap it to guides. Drag them from the rulers. set the options in View > Snapping Manager

Sorry, my bad. I forgot to mention it was about Photo, so have changed the title

Oh no. I have committed the cardinal sin I forgot to mention it was about Photo

I have submitted an appropriate request through the official channels. Having seen the number of feature requests though, I am not overly hopeful of a quick response. Don't you just hate it when Mac users are better off ?

Tough love ?

No. It is just a display. I would like a wheely mousy type entry box.

Yep, left click, right click, double click, alt click, control click.

Your comment reminds me of a line from a movie, "Erin Brokovich" "At this point, I'd settle for charm school!" can't think why?

Not on a PC, poor cousins, remember.