Jowday Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 Imagine being a photographer who is preparing a batch of photos for upload to a stock image site. Trying to sell his/hers work. In that scenario it is common to pixel peep at 100% - apply only modest sharpening - if sharpening at all - and applying filters and effects to selected parts of the image. The professional stock image sites WILL pixel peep at 100% and accept or reject based on the quality. Imagine then... your photo editor not displaying your image correctly at 100% 🥶 Well, this is the case with Affinity Photo is you have selected "Bilinear (Best quality)" in preferences under view quality: Example With this setting open an image. SOOC. Looks a little soft. Apply modest sharpening with unsharp filter: After applying you inspect the result - and it looks like the preview: Imagine you send this to a stock image site - or someone else expecting a sale. Rejected. Too sharp. What? A friend on forum.affinity suggests you select this setting instead: Now it looks like this Comparison: This is a example with modest sharpening applied. Images pasted into post are even softened here by jpg compression. In amateur circles people sharpen much more aggressively and the image will look even worse without best quality selected. And in the world on recipients computers. Other results after running filters are displayed softer at 100% with best quality selected - this cannot be intended behavior. All professionals for example judge and choose their sharpening settings at 100% - and then you cant trust it. Actual output at 100% at all times, please. Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted April 7, 2020 Author Share Posted April 7, 2020 Another finding with best quality enabled - this does not affect live filters? Hope! Until... you flatten the document. Or rasterize the layer with a live filter applied. Then you get a blurred rendering of the image that does not match the more detailed file that you will save/export. Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted April 7, 2020 Author Share Posted April 7, 2020 A third observation: I also (suddenly) get a blurred "best quality" rendering when I activate "Refine selection" (viewed at 100%) but with Nearest Neighbor selected in viewing quality in preferences! After applying the adjustments Photo returns to Nearest Neighbor rendering. Hm. Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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