Prevent Affinity Photo from zooming automatically over 100 %

[ralph303]

I find it very annoying when working with web graphics, that Affinity Photo often zooms to fit the screen, instead of keeping the zoom at a level of 100 % (or at the previously used zoom level).

For example when double clicking or when cropping the image, then the zoom level changes automatically.

Please let the user disable this rather strange behaviour.

 

[AlainP]

You can "Limit initial zoom to a maximum of 100%" under the General tab in Preferences. This will work for the initial opening, but once you used the "Crop Tool" it will zoom automatically to fill the screen. I would like it to stay at the same zoom level too.

[ralph303]

Any news if this one gets fixed?

Edited May 24, 2023 by ralph303

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, ralph303 said:

Any news if this one gets fixed?

But sure what you mean by "this" but in 2.1 the Crop Tool maintains the zoom level after cropping, according to the release notes.

[ralph303]

That's a good point.

I just installed 837 MB of updates, but unfortunately, it's still broken.
Zoom level does not stay at 100 % when using the crop tool and in my installation, there is no "Limit zoom level" option in the general tab of the preferences.

 

[walt.farrell]

1 minute ago, ralph303 said:

Zoom level does not stay at 100 % when using the crop tool and in my installation, there is no "Limit zoom level" option in the general tab of the preferences.

Which application and version are you running, and what OS?

[ralph303]

Affinity Photo 1.10.6 on MacOS 13.4

[walt.farrell]

8 minutes ago, ralph303 said:

Affinity Photo 1.10.6 on MacOS 13.4

As I said, it's fixed in 2.1. 

There will be no further functional enhancements to V1.

[ralph303]

That's nice for users of v2, but v2 is a different program which I don't own and which didn't even exist when I opened this issue.

I bought Affinity Photo last year and hoped to get a crop function that is at least on par with Paintshop Pro 7 (released in the year 2000).
It seems that I'll have to go back to PSP when doing a lot of cropping work, which is really sad.

 

[John Anthony]

Hi guys does someone know how to make zoom in and out in a canvass with using wacom pen tablet in Affinity Photo?

[walt.farrell]

16 hours ago, John Anthony said:

Hi guys does someone know how to make zoom in and out in a canvass with using wacom pen tablet in Affinity Photo?

Welcome to the Affinity forums.

It would be better for you to post that as a new topic in the Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows) forum, rather than tacking it onto this unrelated and old topic. Please be sure to tell us what OS you're using, too, and what version of Photo.