IdleJohn Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 Really need an option to be able to type in specific pixel offset values in the Affine filter. Percentage isn't accurate enough for some things! Also just rename it to Offset 🙂 loukash, TheSpringTie and John Rostron 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IdleJohn Posted April 3, 2021 Author Share Posted April 3, 2021 As a workaround, it's possible to type the percent value in decimals, even though it is not displayed. For example, typing 50.4 will still display 50, but will actually offset by 50.4. With trial and error it's possible to get the exact offset you need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted April 4, 2021 Share Posted April 4, 2021 Same for the Rotation field: even though I have set my preferences to 6 (!) decimal places for degrees, the Rotation field ignores it and displays integers only. In general, this opaque "feature" of rounding the display of values does more harm than good. IdleJohn 1 Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted April 4, 2021 Share Posted April 4, 2021 And on a second thought, this all looks more like a bug to me than a feature request… Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSpringTie Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 Yes, the ability to toggle between percentage offset and exact pixel offset is a needed feature. The workaround of typing a decimal does function (even though the UI will only show whole percentage integers) but it is a crude solution that breaks the user out of the editing flow to fiddle with decimals or their calculator. For example, here is the corner of an image that is 512x512 pixels (zoomed in 2600%). If I want to slide the image 3 pixels to the right (with image Wrap extend mode) I can "guess" that the offset should be 0.6% but this is wrong. You can see the pixel to the right of the pink pixel is starting to bleed pink because 0.6 is not an even division of 512 and this will blur the image when Affinity Photo interpolates the translation. To get a correct offset I need to find out what percent 1 pixel of a 512 pixel image is. 100 / 512 = 0.1953125 So if I want to move exactly 3 pixels I need 0.1953125 * 3 = 0.5859375 I don't know about you but I can't calculate that in my head so I had to waste time doing math for something that should be simple: An option for Pixel offset instead of Percentage offset in the Affine filter. The workaround is unnecessarily complicated and detracts from the core workflow. lepr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caramale Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 Bump for this request, percentages aren't granular enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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