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I often have to prepare other people's tiny images for republishi8ng, so have a lot of experience with resizing and sharpening.

Moving over to affinity I have found the lack of a resize by percentage creates and angst-ridden experience as using integer multiple sizes is key to getting the best results.

I now know I can type in a percentage, but this is really non-intuitive. Don't add it to the drop-down  though, a note that you can type expressions such as percentages into the boxes will encourage people to make more and wider use of this functionality.

Also, why does it give real values for pixel sizes when these have to be integers for the final image?

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1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Also, why does it give real values for pixel sizes when these have to be integers for the final image?

Allowing fractions for intermediate representation avoids forced rounding while it is not (yet) needed. Affinity allows to resize / resample any time, and especially during export. 
 

As Designer allows full vector based documents where pixel do not matter at all, and Photo & designer share the same document format, at least for me it seems the best approach giving (experienced) users the broadest range of options, and avoiding unnecessary nannies (which of course might help beginners). 
 

Never the less, Affinity could do more to inform users in situations where rounding is required (export into pixel formats), and provide some details (e.g. “we adjusted the export size to x / y to achieve integer numbers. This might lead to small deviations from your image size.”

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I understand if the image transformations are non-destructive.

Every month I have to resize a cover image of a magazine to be a thumbnail of a particular size, starting with a larger grab from the PDF proof of the cover.

I will get used to doing the resize in export

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