Photo in Affinity Publisher is sharp, but it becomes unsharp in Affinity Photo

[Leon Munz]

Hi, I have a problem, or at least I don't understand a few things... First of all, when I place a high-resolution image in Publisher, then it is sharp. But when I switch to Affinity Photo inside of Publisher it becomes unsharp (pixelated) when I then go back to Publisher it is sharp again, but it is annoying to make small changes in publisher with a low-resolution image...

Another problem that I have is when I open a high-resolution image in Affinity Photo then it is sharp, but when I place it into a smaller document size (For instance: Image = 1920X1080, and the document is 800X800)then it is unsharp. I understand, fewer pixels = less quality that would be okay. But when I place this image into a Publisher document with a smaller size  then it is totally sharp... I hope you can understand me, and I hope that you can help me.

Publisher version: 1.9.3

Photo version: 1.9.3

 

[stokerg]

On 7/4/2021 at 5:11 PM, Leon Munz said:

Hi, I have a problem, or at least I don't understand a few things... First of all, when I place a high-resolution image in Publisher, then it is sharp. But when I switch to Affinity Photo inside of Publisher it becomes unsharp (pixelated) when I then go back to Publisher it is sharp again, but it is annoying to make small changes in publisher with a low-resolution image...

 

This is due to the viewport of Publisher being different from the viewport of Photo.  More is explained in this thread here, see the reply from walt.farrell.  You can also use split view as mentioned on the thread i've linked to, to view the differences, between the 2 view ports.

On 7/4/2021 at 5:11 PM, Leon Munz said:

Another problem that I have is when I open a high-resolution image in Affinity Photo then it is sharp, but when I place it into a smaller document size (For instance: Image = 1920X1080, and the document is 800X800)then it is unsharp. I understand, fewer pixels = less quality that would be okay. But when I place this image into a Publisher document with a smaller size  then it is totally sharp... I hope you can understand me, and I hope that you can help me.

 

The image of the dog, when you first have it opened, notice the zoom level, its 78% and then in the new document, its over 500% which will cause some pixelation, as its a pixel based image.  When you place the same image in the frame in Publisher, it's being scaled down (you can see this in the top left) so it's not being displayed the same as in Photo.