Default settings in the document resize dialog?

[mck]

I open Affinity Photo after booting my windows 10 PC.
Then I load a png image.

When I do a "Resize Document" the default settings are always:
- Units: Pixels
- DPI: 96

How can I set the default setting to:
- Units: Inches
- DPI: 300

Thanks.

[walt.farrell]

As far as I know, you can't.

You might post a request in the Feedback for Affinity Photo on Desktop forum asking for this enhancement.

I did find one similar request there already, but it ended up suggesting the use of macros, which might not work well for you depending on your exact needs, as there are some bugs in this area with macros recorded in Affinity 1.7 and later. (On the other hand, depending on your exact needs, there are some existing macros recorded in Affinity 1.6 available in the Resources part of the forum that might be useful.)

 

[R C-R]

17 hours ago, mck said:

When I do a "Resize Document" the default settings are always:
- Units: Pixels
- DPI: 96

On my Mac, the "Resize Document" DPI defaults to whatever was set for the PNG when it was saved -- could be anything.

[mck]

11 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

As far as I know, you can't.

You might post a request in the Feedback for Affinity Photo on Desktop forum asking for this enhancement.

I did find one similar request there already, but it ended up suggesting the use of macros, which might not work well for you depending on your exact needs, as there are some bugs in this area with macros recorded in Affinity 1.7 and later. (On the other hand, depending on your exact needs, there are some existing macros recorded in Affinity 1.6 available in the Resources part of the forum that might be useful.)

 

Thanks for your response.  It would be nice to have that option in preferences.  I'll learn how to use macros in Affinity and go from there.

[mck]

4 hours ago, R C-R said:

On my Mac, the "Resize Document" DPI defaults to whatever was set for the PNG when it was saved -- could be anything.

Does that happen even if you power down and power back up?  On my PC running Win10, the default in Resize Document after booting up is pixels and 96 DPI.

Thanks.

[R C-R]

5 hours ago, mck said:

Does that happen even if you power down and power back up?  On my PC running Win10, the default in Resize Document after booting up is pixels and 96 DPI.

Yes, even after powering down. But note that I am talking about PNG files that have been saved with a DPI value.

[mck]

3 hours ago, R C-R said:

Yes, even after powering down. But note that I am talking about PNG files that have been saved with a DPI value.

Thanks for your info.  On my windows 10 PC I just did a test using PNG images:

- Resize to 300 DPI, set inches, set 10 inches horizontal
- Save the image, then close it.
- Open a different PNG image.
- Open "Resize Document".  The setting are back to pixels and 96 DPI.

That also happens if I close Affiniity Photo and then open it again.  Or if I shutdown my PC and reboot.  IOW, it always happens for a new PNG image.  I also tried it using JPG images and the same thing happens except JPG images default to 72 DPI instead of 96 DPI.

Too bad that Affinity Photo won't remember the last Document resize settings using Windows 10, or have a way to set the default settings for Resize Document.  Really simple things to implement in the software compared to the complex things that AF is capable of. 

I will investigate use of a macro to do it.

Thanks.

[PaulEC]

FWIW - on my Windows PC, the size in the Resize Document dialogue is whatever the size of the image/document is currently. (In other words, if the image is 96 dpi if will show as 96 dpi, if it's 300 dpi it will show as 300 dpi.) The unit is whatever the rulers are set to. However as they always default to pixels, that's what is shown in the Resize Document dialogue unless you have changed it. (It doesn't matter if the image is PNG, JPG, whatever.) If you open a new document the units used will be whatever you used when you created it.

[R C-R]

10 hours ago, mck said:

- Resize to 300 DPI, set inches, set 10 inches horizontal
- Save the image, then close it.
- Open a different PNG image.
- Open "Resize Document".  The setting are back to pixels and 96 DPI.

But what happens if you reopen the document you set to 300 DPI? Does it also revert to 96 DPI or remain at 300?

[mck]

11 hours ago, PaulEC said:

FWIW - on my Windows PC, the size in the Resize Document dialogue is whatever the size of the image/document is currently. (In other words, if the image is 96 dpi if will show as 96 dpi, if it's 300 dpi it will show as 300 dpi.) The unit is whatever the rulers are set to. However as they always default to pixels, that's what is shown in the Resize Document dialogue unless you have changed it. (It doesn't matter if the image is PNG, JPG, whatever.) If you open a new document the units used will be whatever you used when you created it.

Yes, that is what is happening.

[mck]

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

But what happens if you reopen the document you set to 300 DPI? Does it also revert to 96 DPI or remain at 300?

After resizing to 10 inches, 300dpi, I saved the image as afphoto, png and jpg.  Closed Affinity.  Opening each saved image retains the 10 inches and 300 dpi.

But my task is that I'm exporting images from Sketchup (a CAD program) in the png format.  I want to print the images on 8.5 x 11 inch paper in the landscape orientation.  So I'm resizing the png images to inches, 300dpi and size 10 inches and they print out perfectly.

However, when I change the view in Sketchup and want to print the different view, I have to change pixels to inches and dpi from 96 to 300 every time.  I don't mind changing the 10 inch entry but I always print stuff at 300dpi and with the inch settings.

The overwhelming majority of my need to resize images is to print them at 300dpi at various inch sizes.  So I want Affinity Photo's resize dialog to default to inches and 300 dpi.  As previously mentioned, I'll investigate doing it with a macro.

Thanks.

[walt.farrell]

3 hours ago, mck said:

But my task is that I'm exporting images from Sketchup (a CAD program) in the png format

You should figure out why Sketchup is creating them at 96 DPI. That is the source of that part of your problem.

[mck]

3 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

You should figure out why Sketchup is creating them at 96 DPI. That is the source of that part of your problem.

I don't think that's right.

For instance, jpg images from any of our cameras will load into Affinity Photo as 72 dpi.  There is no way that I know of to change that setting in any camera to 300dpi.  Similarly PNG images exported from VLC media player will load into AP as 72 dpi.  I don't know how to change that in VLC either. 

Apparently the dpi setting imbedded in images are just set by the camera or software and is not changeable by the user.  It's of no consequence really since viewing pixels on the computer monitor just uses the pixel values and ignores the dpi value, and for printing I always change dpi to 300.

Thanks though.  I appreciate your contribution,
mck

[mck]

Update:

I learned how to create macros in Affinity Photo and the macro is working to resize documents to "inches, 300dpi and 10 inches".  Too bad that AP does not have keyboard shortcuts for macros like Photoshop has.  It is more time consuming to have to display the library panel and then click on the macro I created, instead of just using a quick keyboard shortcut.

I see that folks have requested keyboard shortcuts for macros in AP but their requests have not been implemented.  Hopefully some day ...😏.