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Right now I'm just jumping through hoops to get Affinity Pro to try and scale an image proportionally within a macro. Right now the macro hard-codes the exact value I scale it to, so if I try to adjust an image with a different aspect ratio it breaks it. So the math there is so that i can try to tell the macro to scale it based on its width. Then the height would be h*(1920/w). So in photoshop I would just scale the image's x value to 1920, and the y value would scale proportionately. But Affinity Pro wants to hard code EVERYTHING into the macro. Ugh. In the end, all I need is a way to tell the macro to scale the image to 1920 "proportionately". The software currently DOES scale it proportionately when you do it individually. But the macro records a hard value for both x and y, rather than just the "x" value, and let the "y" value follow along proportionately. If that makes sense. Hopefully someone can point out the "proportionally" checkbox or something . . .

Yes, Duplicate gets it close. It doesn't quite work for me in this case because I want to paste/duplicate it in AFTER I've made some other adjustments to canvas size, etc.

Using equations in the Transform panel ALMOST works, but for some reason you can't input the equation w*(1920/w) into the Transform panel. Specifically, it can't process 1920/w. Or any integer divided by w. It will accept w/2 or 2*w, but not 2/w. SO much time and effort to try to reproduce something that's so enormously simple in Photoshop. I must really want to replace photoshop, haha.

Hmmm . . . I almost had a different way figured out, using `transform` instead of `resize`. But when it stores my initial `resize`, it's hard-coding the width change, rather than just the vertical height resize. So it only works on images that are exactly the same aspect ratio. Any way to record a "resize" event when feeding it just the vertical dimension? So that it just maintains the aspect ratio?

We process still photos for video slideshows, where we resize and crop photos, creating a blurred background of the same photo to fill in the "sides" of the photo when it's not a pure HD aspect ratio. So we: Resize to the correct height Copy this version of the photo. Resize, crop and blur it to make a correctly-sized, HD background, Then paste the original (copied in the previous step) on top. I'd love to hear a creative solution if you have one. Thanks!

Argh. A year later and an upgrade to Affinity 2 and I still can't Copy/Paste each new file in a Macro. Come on guys. Gotta have this. A Batch file should be able to copy the current file, not the original file that was used to record the macro.

Done. Thank you! And sorry I didn't look there first. Here's the link to the request in case anyone else winds up here first:

Just casting our vote that we really need this feature. We can't leave Photoshop without it. Great work overall on the product though BTW, getting super close!!

Currently when I try to copy the current image as part of a macro, it doesn't record the "copy" portion as part of the macro. Instead the macro only records the "Paste" of the original content. So I'm trying to reproduce a photoshop action where it copies each new photo, then I do some resizing and blurring and then I need to be able to paste the original "current" image back on top of the manipulated version of itself. But, again, when I try this in Affinity, it's not recording the "Copy" portion of the action, so it's just pasting in the old, original image that I used when I recorded the macro. I need to find a way to get these macros to copy the current image. Is there any possible way to do this? Or should I post this as a feature request. We run this process on thousands of photos for slideshows. This gives all the photos a matching background, regardless of aspect ratio. BTW, I've been an Affinity owner for a LONG time, but this round when I came back, I was VERY impressed with its functionality. Nice work!!

OK, so from what I can tell, I can't just select a portion of an image and then transform it. (Ctrl+t) in Photoshop. Am I missing something? This is a pretty core tool and I'm really trying to get my team to switch to Affinity, but we just can't do it without core pieces like this. I can't wait to be taught how to find this tool. Thanks!!