AffinityLover Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 Dear Developers, We found Affinity Photo is lacking a Deskew feature which helps straighten out a crooked scanned document or photo. People scanned documents that look crooked or at a slanted angle and there is no option in your software to fix that. Please implement the Deskew feature to straighten a crooked/slanted scanned pages that don't reduce the document quality doing so, a non-destructive process please. I attempted to rotate a slanted scanned document and the image quality looks horrible, so many jagged edges and blurry. So this Deskew feature is very need. Other image editing software has it. Make it happens guys. Thank You Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 AP has Straighten routine in its crop tool. Try that. If you need automated deskew you might want to try XnConvert which can batch process images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 It is not clear whether you need to rotate the entire document (in which case use @Fixx's suggestion) or whether you need to apply rotation to just one axis, in which case you can use the Shear tool Filter > Distort > Shear. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffinityLover Posted July 22, 2020 Author Share Posted July 22, 2020 8 hours ago, Fixx said: AP has Straighten routine in its crop tool. Try that. If you need automated deskew you might want to try XnConvert which can batch process images. The Crop tool is very destructive which makes the scanned document or image drops in quality with jagged edges. I tried it by rotating the document angle slightly to straighten it out to perfect 90 degree and the result quality looks horrible. So the Crop tool is not a solution to Deskew slanted image. This is a basic feature that every image editing software should have but I'm surprise that Affinity Photo doesn't have it. Time to add it in guys. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smee Again Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 Deskew by using the arrow selection tool and unlocking the bottom layer. Grab the center node on bottom or either side and move as needed. Alternatively, the "perspective tool" (nested with the mesh warp tool) to really adjust a skewed image. Can even correct perspective (as its name says). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffinityLover Posted July 23, 2020 Author Share Posted July 23, 2020 I just found out the Win10 Photos app has the capability to fix slanted scanned page. Sometimes we don't place the document on the scanner bed perfectly and the scan came out with slanted angle. I tested out with the Photos app by using its Crop tool, then use the Straightening function within by dragging the slider until the page lined up 90 and 180 degrees. The Photos app did it perfectly without any reduction in quality, non-destructive. Whereas AF make the straighten function destructive, which seriously reduce document quality that causes the text looking jacked up. Guys, we need this Straightening feature available in AF without destructive quality. Just try out what I pointed out in Photos app and make that function available in AF please. Seriously, the Straighten feature within Crop tool needs real fix and improvement. I noticed developers don't take any feedback from customers to improve your product. Not cool. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 4 hours ago, AffinityLover said: developers don't take any feedback from customers to improve your product. This is flat out wrong. They get so much feedback from so many places (not just the forums) that it simply isn't possible to keep up with it all at once. They need to prioritize and decide what to work on first, and it takes time to make things happen. In general, they do not normally respond to the feedback, but they do read it and many changes have been made in these programs because of the feedback people have given. There is also an overall design that the developers have in mind for the software and sometimes the feedback might contradict the direction in which they are trying to go; additionally, sometimes the feedback from different users will contradict each other. Not everything people ask for will be possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 I will just add:https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/52-feature-requests-suggestions/ Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 18 hours ago, AffinityLover said: The Crop tool is very destructive which makes the scanned document or image drops in quality with jagged edges. I tried it by rotating the document angle slightly to straighten it out to perfect 90 degree and the result quality looks horrible. I did not get so bad quality. Do you have View Quality set in Preferences to Nearest Neighbour or Bilinear? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stub Mandrel Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Is it possible to make the crop tool into a deskew/crop tool? This is something I miss hugely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Try the perspective tool, it may do what you want. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.0 | Affinity Photo 2.4.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stub Mandrel Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 On 6/18/2021 at 5:36 PM, Old Bruce said: Try the perspective tool, it may do what you want. Thank you - it does help, although the ability to move an edge (two nodes together) would make it more powerful (shear) and user-friendly than only being able to move one node at a time. I searched the help, and it doesn't mention 'skew' or 'deskew' - perhaps it would be useful to add that the perspective tool can be used for deskewing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 @AffinityLover, you do not say what the scanning resolution is for your images. (This is not the same as the dpi in the scanned image.) Most flatbed scanners can scan at 4000 pixels per inch. If you use such large, hi-res scan, then rotate/straighten, then resize to a more convenient size, you may avoid the jaggies. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 On 6/20/2021 at 11:51 AM, John Rostron said: Most flatbed scanners can scan at 4000 pixels per inch. That is high end scanner. Mainstream scanners scan 600 dpi, 1200 at most Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 1 hour ago, Fixx said: That is high end scanner. Mainstream scanners scan 600 dpi, 1200 at most I used a Canon MP630 and VueScan and it claimed to be scanning at 4000ppi. I saw no reason to doubt this. John Fixx 1 Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stub Mandrel Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 My Epson offers 9,600 dpi. It's actually 2,400 optical resolution but uses interpolation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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