Affinity photo: how to anchor an object to the center of the guides cell. Is it possible?

[Evil Pechenka]

I draw a grid from the guides and place objects there. The edges of the object are snapping to the guides.

But is there an option to enable snapping to the center of the cell? I tried different settings - nothing works.

In the first screenshot, centering at the center of the document. Can I do the same in the center of the cell?

[GarryP]

As far as I know there isn’t a way to do what you want as there are no ‘cells’ to snap to, just the guides themselves.
What you perceive as a ‘cell’ doesn’t exist as a concept within the software.
Any enclosed area bounded by guides is not ‘understood’ by the software; in other words, there’s ‘nothing there’.
If you want to snap to guides then you need to create those guides at the positions you want to snap to.

[carl123]

Draw a rectangle that snaps to the cell, then snap your object to that

Move the rectangle to the next cell(s) and repeat as required

[Wosven]

You can also duplicate a Picture frame with an image constrained (in the Designer persona), and replace easily the images.

[Wosven]

To notice: you can add images in a table's cell, but it won't get the proprieties of a picture frame (properties, constrains), and you'll have manually to resize each one. It would be handy if it does (like in QXD).

[carl123]

12 minutes ago, Wosven said:

You can also duplicate a Picture frame with an image constrained (in the Designer persona), and replace easily the images.

In Affinity Photo?

[Wosven]

10 minutes ago, carl123 said:

In Affinity Photo?

In APub, I assumed it's in APub from the screen shots, but there's also a column guides in AP. 1st time I notice! 

[PixelPest]

When you know the size of a "Cell" it´s easy to place images numerically:

First image is placed at 20/15mm second at 60/15mm - next row starts at 20/45mm

[carl123]

2 minutes ago, Wosven said:

I assumed it's in APub from the screen shots

Check the thread's title ☺️

[Wosven]

1 minute ago, carl123 said:

Check the thread's title

I checked the forum' section and the screen shots, I'm not used to good titles in threads, lol

[lacerto]

If you have Affinity Publisher, too, you can create a document with correct size and then place alignment helper rectangles on a master page. Then open the .afpub document in Photo and save it as .aphoto document. You can also create an .aftemplate template file so that you can create new .aphoto documents with a grid:

Note that in order to be able to align to rectangles on a master page, you need to have the following snapping option enabled:

UPDATE: The master has the benefit of allowing arbitrary alignment grids, not only e.g. individual column widths (not available when using column guides), but using any kind of objects as alignment aid.

[PixelPest]

Another convenient way is the use of the "Grid+Axis Manager" with Division set to 2. So snapping works:

[Evil Pechenka]

2 minutes ago, PixelPest said:

Another convenient way is the use of the "Grid+Axis Manager" with Division set to 2. So snapping works:

Is it Affinity Photo? Exactly?

[PixelPest]

Yes - I read the title.