Photo: How to create slices that snap to guides?

[Peter de Kraker]

I am a bit stumped. I am trying to slice an image in sub images, that need exact slicing. So what I did, just like in Photoshop (which I want to ditch), is to create pixel perfect guides so that each item to be sliced has a guide on each side. I found out about the export persona, so I tried using that, but I can't get the slices to snap to the guides. It's just ignoring those.

Am I missing something? I would expect this to be quite basic functionality?

My use case: I have a rendered piano keyboard, and want to slice the keys so I get an image for each key.

[Pšenda]

5 minutes ago, Peter de Kraker said:

Am I missing something?

 

[Pšenda]

P.S. It can be solved/workaround by creating a Rectangle (without Fill and Stroke) with clipped Image (Image must be part of a Rectangle), and in the Export persona and Layers panel you select the Rectangle and use Create slice.

Don't forget the pixel perfect position and size of the rectangles/slices.

[Peter de Kraker]

Thanks for the pointer and the workaround. In my case I now used Pixelmator Pro, which is less of a hassle regarding workflow. Hope it will be fixed more properly in the future, since I like Affinity's app.

[cTHULHU]

Yet again obvious workflow ignored. Creating a slice so that it uses the guides and inbuilt snapping is so obvious. There are two features to make slices so much better

• Duplicate slice
• Slice snapping

Yes you could add lots of extra fancy stuff but just these will make slices great again.

[thomaso]

On 7/12/2024 at 12:08 AM, cTHULHU said:

• Duplicate slice
• Slice snapping

• Units other than pixel/px only in the Transform panel for slices.

[ronnyb]

The export persona is a UI disaster that needs to be addressed. Hopefully by 3.0 we can have snapping 🙄 

[Celia at Grafted Works]

The lack of this functionality drives me crazy, too!

[X-Raym]

Oh my god I cant believe this is missing, so annoying!

Sorry, but I am struggling on this 1 hour, jus for 4 simples rectangle.

Please make it happen! 🙏

[Meliora spero]

Why did Serif put so much effort into building so much functionality, only to leave out the most important part back in 2016 — and then never follow up? Useless, and there’s no hope they’ll ever fix it.

[Denis the Menace]

I agree. I just tested the new AI functionalities of Affinity Photo which are really welcome... But hey, THIS issue is still not solved which makes slices absolutely useless. And this is exactly the reason I need to stick to pixelmator Pro... For very basic features missing on Affinity Photo.  Weird and sad.