Info Panel dimensions blank

[SP40]

Hi,

OSX 10.14.6 AfPh 1.7.3

Currently the info panel doesn't display any dimension information. 

Image size is displayed in the status bar with the Pan tool selected.

Any suggestions?

thanks

Additional:

On computer restart AfPh displays size info for 1 file only.

If a second file is opened it shows the same dimensions as the first file.

The status bar shows the correct size for both files.

[walt.farrell]

If you're talking about the H, W, D, and A fields in the Info panel I never see anything in them on Windows.

I don't understand what they're supposed to show. The Help says they're the relative height, width, distance, and angle. But relative to what? And what distance or angle should be displayed?

[SP40]

Hi Walt,

Yes.

I need to see the H & W fields.

Maybe the D & A fields are for the colour picker function in the panel.

 

[carl123]

You can set a target position on an image

Whenever you then move a target position its height, width, distance and angle will be displayed relative to its last position

[h_d]

The Info panel doesn't display image dimensions - they're in the Transform panel. The Help documentation gives a description of what the Info panel does - it's mainly to do with colour sampling.

If you set and then move a target, you'll see the H, W, D and A values update in the Info panel:

Cheers,

H

[SP40]

Hi Carl & H

Thanks. that explains how the panel works.

But... Why?

How is that information useful.

The Transform panel is only active with a selection active and only gives dimensions.

How do I see the document size (in either cm or inches), resolution and bit depth displayed without opening the resize document menu option?

thanks

 

[walt.farrell]

37 minutes ago, SP40 said:

How do I see the document size (in either cm or inches), resolution and bit depth displayed without opening the resize document menu option?

With the View Tool (the Hand) selected, all of that is in the Context Toolbar, except that the size is in px.

[Old Bruce]

Part of the problem is that Photo is designed to work with pixels so that information about document size is (arbitrarily) set by the ppi/dpi resolution and the number of pixels in the x, y dimensions. In other words the application is working with pixels which can be set to any physical size, one pixel = 1/300th of an inch or one pixel = three inches so document size in inches or cm is almost meaningless.

It is almost like the question "How long is a piece of string?"

If you know how big you want a document to be in inches set up the document that size, if you don't yet know how big the document is going to be just work at max resolution and then resize it later. Sorry that there is no easy way to do what you want but that is the nature of a digital photo, when I develop a raw file from my camera I have an image size of 4 x 6 feet at 72 ppi. I am never going to print it out that large though.

[SP40]

HI Walt & Old Bruce,

thanks for replying.

Yes I get the the idea of using pixel dimensions. However I work with multiple copies of files for different outputs, It is much easier to check this using dimensions & resolution rather than pixels.

It seems the answer to my question "How do I see the document size (in either cm or inches), resolution and bit depth displayed without opening the resize document menu option?"

Is, you can't do it.

OK I'll adapt my workflow.

best