Default PPP when I open an image

[crazyDesigner]

Every time I open an image with Affinity photo it automatically opens at 72dpi and the image is blurry. To solve it I have to change for example to 300 dpi and the image becomes sharper. 

With Photoshop this did not happen to me. What dpi do you recommend by default to have and how can I make Affinity Photo open the image with a default dpi? 

Thank you!

[skopje]

me too

[Greyfox]

When I open an image in Affinity Photo, it opens by default "Zoomed" to fit (and I'm not aware of any setting to change that default)

 For a  4032px x 3024px image, that is zoomed to around 25%.  DPI doesn't come into it, that value is for print purposes. (Yes, changing the DPI will affect the width/height as displayed on the rulers, but doesn't affect the way the image is displayed on the screen. "Zoomed to fit" will give exactly the same displayed size for any given image regardless of what you set the DPI to.)

A computer monitor has a fixed number of pixels. On my 21.5" monitors that is 1920px x 1080px. The monitors have a pixel spacing of 99 pixels per inch, so at 25% zoom, my 4032px wide image will display physically about 10.18 inches wide. At 25% zoom effectively one out of every 4 pixels in the image is being displayed.  I can of course zoom the picture to say 100%,, which will then display all of the pixels, but then only a portion of the image can be seen at any stage without panning.

[DWright]

When an image is opened in Photo it uses the default settings of the image itself the only time that it would use the default of 72dpi is if you crate a blank new document with 72 dpi and then place your image into this document. if you unclip the canvas the placed image will be shown at its default settings.