grahamm7 Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 One of the tools I used in Adobe Photoshop Elements was the marquee tool to say select an area of the photograph. It is useful to know the size of the area in pixels. But when I use the rectangular marquee tools it doesn't give me any dimensions at the top The crop tool as you vary the crop clearly shows me the width and depth in pixels as I move it and resize. Maybe you can turn on the pixel display? Or maybe AF just doesn't show the size in the Marguee tool. On Adobe PS I could set the ratio of the marguee to say 1:1.777 ie HD to ensure the area I selected used HD dimensions and then I could resize the area if necessary. Haven't seen a resize image yet which I had on Adobe PS - I am trying to convert from PS to AF Photo. I have found some videos that compare the two. Used one of these in finding the marguee tool in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 The Transform studio panel will show you the size of the rectangular marquee selection, and will also allow you to adjust it. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Info panel also shows the size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahamm7 Posted November 3, 2020 Author Share Posted November 3, 2020 On 10/21/2020 at 6:44 PM, walt.farrell said: The Transform studio panel will show you the size of the rectangular marquee selection, and will also allow you to adjust it. what is the transforrn studio panel - search help no anwer. Still can't see any informaiton about what I am doing with the marguee tool re pixels Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahamm7 Posted November 3, 2020 Author Share Posted November 3, 2020 On 10/22/2020 at 7:04 AM, Fixx said: Info panel also shows the size. What info panel. I have looked every where for details of the pixels that I am selecting with the marguee tool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 2 minutes ago, grahamm7 said: what is the transforrn studio panel - search help no anwer. Still can't see any informaiton about what I am doing with the marguee tool re pixels Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | 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...
walt.farrell Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 8 minutes ago, grahamm7 said: what is the transforrn studio panel - search help no anwer. Still can't see any informaiton about what I am doing with the marguee tool re pixels https://affinity.help/photo/English.lproj/pages/Panels/transformPanel.html Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahamm7 Posted November 3, 2020 Author Share Posted November 3, 2020 57 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: I did find this eventually. One of the main uses I use this for is to select an area 1:1.777 (Ie HD ratio). Then copy this to a new image and resize to 1920 x 1080. It is easy with Adobe Photoshop elements. I can set the marguee to a ration of 1:1.777 copy the area I want from the large area from the camera image. Say new image and it sets the new canvas at the size of the marguee. I can then resize the image to HD. I can see that Affinity is a much more complex tool - looks superb it is just trying to learn how to use it after - Adobe. Jowday 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 And what about creating a new document (Ctrl+N, use the built-in template for 1920x1080 - Web FHD, not HD), and use the File/Place menu to insert an image into it (and adjust the position and size as needed)? Old Bruce 1 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...
Jowday Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 35 minutes ago, grahamm7 said: I did find this eventually. One of the main uses I use this for is to select an area 1:1.777 (Ie HD ratio). Then copy this to a new image and resize to 1920 x 1080. It is easy with Adobe Photoshop elements. Yep, also easy in Photoshop CC. You can set ratio for selections, crop to the selection and more. Affinity is ‘complex’ because Serif made a decision NOT to hire user experience designers and this is the result. Tons of usability issues. Look for an export preview fx - none. If you love meaningless time consuming workarounds Affinity is a gold mine though... Move Along People and Pšenda 1 1 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...
grahamm7 Posted November 5, 2020 Author Share Posted November 5, 2020 On 11/3/2020 at 4:29 PM, Jowday said: Yep, also easy in Photoshop CC. You can set ratio for selections, crop to the selection and more. Affinity is ‘complex’ because Serif made a decision NOT to hire user experience designers and this is the result. Tons of usability issues. Look for an export preview fx - none. If you love meaningless time consuming workarounds Affinity is a gold mine though... Thank you for your honest and helpful comments. I am not a Graphics designer etc.. I thought it was just me finding AF photo complex and not very easy to use. I had Adobe Photoshop Elements v14 purchased 5 years ago. So I have just invested and upgraded to Adobe PE 2021. Bit more expensive than AF but will suite me better. I only tend to use Photoshop for photographs etc. So elements suites me. I am sorry now I wasted my money purchasing AF photo. I was using Serif Page Plus but that has been replaced by AF Publisher. It is not backward compatible with Serif Page Plus re files !!! So I went to AF Publisher I thought Photo looks good I will compliment it As you say they hadn't looked at the users? Many thanks Jowday 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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