jboozybooz

I didn't ask if you could resize an image without resampling it. Please re-read what I wrote. Holy shit @ the 14 day refund period, not surprised it's such a short window as it's rife with problems, though I did order through the App Store rather than through the Affinity Store (whatever that is?), so I'll try my luck through Apple.

Is there no way to make a task as simple as resizing an image (and having it look good) to be as easy and efficient as it is in Photoshop?

So in order to get it to be the same as resizing to smaller pixel dimensions in Photoshop, I'm going to have to add an unsharp mask every time. Of course, then I'm going to have to waste time playing with the unsharp mask settings back and forth to get it to look the same as before I resized it, which is near impossible because of Affinity's automatic overzoom craziness when you resize an image. Is there no way to make a task as simple as resizing an image (and have it look good) to be as easy and effortless as it is in Photoshop? This is a large portion of my work and I was stoked to switch to Affinity, but if it can't handle something like that without creating a ridiculous workflow for me then it doesn't really fulfill its purpose. We can talk for days about how resizing an image naturally downgrades it, but at the end of the day I want practicality and efficiency. I'm still within my 30 day refund period at least, so if there's no way around this then I'm not SOL.

Ah, the degradation and blurring happens when you resize an image. It actually doesn't have to do with downscaling or resampling, it's happening when resizing an image (i.e. making a 2000x2000 file size down to a 1000x1000, using cmd+option+i). If I un-check "resampling" when resizing the image, it won't even let me resize the image. How can I size an image down without resampling and blurring, like in Photoshop?

No matter what I export, Affinity Photo renders as blurry, with weird color profiles. Here's Save For Web as JPG at 75 quality with Photoshop (topmost pic), and then a bunch of different export options from Affinity (#2 is png, #3-6 are jpg with different resampling options at 100 quality) https://imgur.com/a/u7ZUMrL Photoshop renders the text sharp and clear, Affinity always renders it blurry no matter what option and even in PNG. And here's another test, #1 (top) is Affinity, #2 is Photoshop. Same settings as above, but for Affinity I only tested Bilinear resampling. https://imgur.com/a/vnRmNIH Why is it so much worse in Affinity? How can I get it to not be blurry even at 100 quality?