drag & drop center layer

[dzigakaiser]

12 hours ago, R C-R said:

I thought that might be what was meant, but on my Mac "Align Center" only centers horizontally. To center both horizontally and vertically, I must use that plus "Align Middle."

Perhaps I am still suffering from the aforementioned senior moment, but I do not see a way to combine the two into one keyboard shortcut. 

Mhhh, I just took a look and it seems you simply can't.....Now, that I see you cannot assign a shortcut to macros, the reasons of which I don't really understand, and you can't assign the same key to two functions, it seems we are out of luck. The only way I see now is to create a Macro on the keyboard that would trigger to keys after another. Not very convenient.

I have to admit that I was really hoping Affinity could be a PS replacement for me and it makes me a little sad to come across big no no's so fast x_x Unfortunately, not production ready in my case. As long as Adobe hasn't broken the last remaining useful features, I have to stay there ;_;

[R C-R]

23 minutes ago, dzigakaiser said:

I have to admit that I was really hoping Affinity could be a PS replacement for me and it makes me a little sad to come across big no no's so fast x_x

I know you prefer drag & drop for this but have you at least tried out the Place alternative, particularly with the modifier keys that provide a preview & dragging out from the center to set the placed size?

[dzigakaiser]

10 hours ago, R C-R said:

I know you prefer drag & drop for this but have you at least tried out the Place alternative, particularly with the modifier keys that provide a preview & dragging out from the center to set the placed size?

Yes, I have. The problem is that I have xnview with my image library open and I browse and load a lot of files throughout a session and even if I bind a shortcut to the place command I would always have to browse into a folder and choose my file again. It is just very inefficient;(

[borntobe]

That's so ridiculous, just make it so when dropping an image to be central to the canvas, especially when they are the same size, like is ps, why is this so difficult? 

[zynexis]

none of these solutions are really useful for the task, it's a quite common thing to drop in several images at once

i work with game textures and screenshots, and often drop in a stack of 50+ images, to mass crop/scale etc
it would be terribly nice to have a setting to set imported images to centered
- and maybe even an option like PS which both center and scale imported layer to canvas size (both would be really helpful)

it's workflow problems like this that can make a break if the program is usable in a pipeline
having to manually move or click macros and other quirky things is not efficient in some scenarios (see img)

the best solution i found is to select all the layers, and hit arrange center then arrange middle, then drag them to snap center..

[Emil Petersen]

Hi!

I'm trying Affinity again and notice is has made big progress since a couple of years ago, great !

This nerve-racking behaviour however didn't change

When I drop in images, about 99% of the time I want them to appear centered. It not, I will arrange them in a later step. Photof*** does that by default (at least with me, maybe I changed some setting).

So please just do this very small thing: Create an option in settings like this: "Automatically center dropped Images" Done! Everyone's happy.

Best regards. And big thanks to dev team for their great work!

 

[Ron P.]

Hi Emil Petersen (I see you also correctly spell your last name)

Do you drag & drop from say a browser or File Explorer? How about using the File>Place command? Using the latter, and with snapping enabled, you are shown the center of your canvas, by the red and green guides/lines.

Cheers, Ron Petersen

[Emil Petersen]

Thanks for the advice @Ron P. !

I tried that and find its not quicker or more intuitive than dragging and dropping from explorer (Yes, thats what I do all the time, its most intuitive for me) and then using the alignment buttons. Both methods are not ideal, but ok.

Cheers