Looby Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 (edited) I have some artwork I have had scanned at 600 DPI and it has been saved as 3 files, a TIFF, jpeg and a PDF. The original size of the piece of art was 30cm x 25cm. I would like to have it printed as a tea towel by an online print on demand site but the template for that is sized at 72cm x 44cm. I can't upload the art to the website, I have to email it at the correct size or aspect ratio. How can I adjust one of the scans in either Affinity Designer or Affinity Photo without distorting it or losing any quality so that I can send it off for printing? Or is this not possible? I am very new to the software so I'm hoping someone can help me with some step by step instructions! Edited April 3, 2022 by Looby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 28 minutes ago, Looby said: How can I adjust one of the scans in either Affinity Designer or Affinity Photo without distorting it or losing any quality so that I can send it off for printing? Or is this not possible? Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. 30x25 is an aspect ratio of 1.2, and 72x44 is an aspect ratio of 1.64 (approximately). You cannot simply resize and fit your image into that template. You could resize it to 60x50 (too small in one direction, too large in the other) or to 52x44 (right in one, too small in the other) or to 72x60 (right in the other one, too big in the other). But resizing alone will not get you that exact size. Of those choices, if you don't need to completely fill the template space, resizing to 52x44 would be your best choice as it is as large as you can go without losing something from your design. Either Photo or Designer can do that, but I would use Photo and Document > Resize if I were doing that. The DPI will end up lower than 600 unless you also resample, but I think the quality would be OK. Resizing and cropping would let you fit the template exactly, but you would need to choose what parts of your image to lose. Photo would be better for doing that, in my opinion, and the Crop Tool in Resample mode would make the cropping and resizing relatively simple. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.1.2, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.1.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Looby Posted April 4, 2022 Author Share Posted April 4, 2022 Thank you Walt, I have to fill the template and I can afford to crop the image a bit so I will give the the crop and resize option in Photo a go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 You're welcome. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.1.2, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.1.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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