dannac Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 Trying the Filter-Distort-Mirror command. Started with square image ... did a 4x mirror, but image did not stay centered. Advice please ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 (edited) Did you drag the mouse around on the image while using the mirror functionality? Dragging the mouse around will change the position of the mirror origin. I don’t think there is a way to reset the mirror origin back to the centre (without a lot of fiddly manual work) except for cancelling the mirror operation and starting again. Edited June 28, 2023 by GarryP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannac Posted June 28, 2023 Author Share Posted June 28, 2023 12 minutes ago, GarryP said: Did you drag the mouse around on the image while using the mirror functionality? Dragging the mouse around will change the position of the mirror origin. No .... don't think so, but will try again. Thanks for reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 If it happens again it would be useful if you can share the document, at a stage just before you use the functionality, so we can try and reproduce it ourselves. If it does happen again we will also need to know which OS you are using (with version number) and which version of Photo you are using. Note: It's better to give the thread a title which relates to the issue rather than the application and version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannac Posted June 28, 2023 Author Share Posted June 28, 2023 Tried again on same square image and it worked great, image stayed center. Brought in a different photo ... cropped to 1:1. Tried the same mirror 4 and it was offset again. Thanks NOTE : cannot change title ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 2 minutes ago, dannac said: Brought in a different photo ... cropped to 1:1. You would need to rasterize and or Flatten (Document > Flatten) that layer to get the layer to be the actual size of the canvas. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannac Posted June 28, 2023 Author Share Posted June 28, 2023 Another test. Original square image created perfect Mirror 4 when applied from Filter menu. Mirror 4 applied from a Macro that was created when using the Filter menu does not come out the same, has the offset. Inputs and outputs stayed at 0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannac Posted June 28, 2023 Author Share Posted June 28, 2023 11 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: You would need to rasterize and or Flatten (Document > Flatten) that layer to get the layer to be the actual size of the canvas. Aha .... that's probably it Bruce. THanks will check it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannac Posted June 28, 2023 Author Share Posted June 28, 2023 If image is cropped ... seems you have to "raterize and trim" ( thanks Bruce ) but the Macro will not create same image as going through the Filter-Distort-Mirror menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted June 29, 2023 Share Posted June 29, 2023 17 hours ago, dannac said: NOTE : cannot change title ? You should be able to change the title of the thread by hovering the mouse pointer over the title and then, as shown in the tool tip, ‘long-clicking’ and then editing it (I think this only works with desktop browsers). (There’s no way you could know this without being told or accidentally finding it.) If you can’t do this yourself for some reason then a moderator may do it for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 29, 2023 Share Posted June 29, 2023 20 hours ago, dannac said: NOTE : cannot change title ? You should be able to do it as GarryP described, or by Editing the first post in the topic, but this latter method has some time-based restrictions on it and so it may not be available to you. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannac Posted June 30, 2023 Author Share Posted June 30, 2023 Thanks guys .... was able to change title. GarryP and walt.farrell 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 On 6/28/2023 at 3:47 PM, dannac said: If image is cropped ... seems you have to "raterize and trim" ( thanks Bruce ) but the Macro will not create same image as going through the Filter-Distort-Mirror menu. What steps are included in the macro? Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted July 1, 2023 Share Posted July 1, 2023 When you record a macro, it will safe parameters like layer size and center position. when you reuse the macro in documents with different size, it will produce unintended results, as the recorded parameters wont fit to the new file, and cannot be edited. This limits the usability of macros. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. My posts focus on technical aspects and leave out most of social grease like „maybe“, „in my opinion“, „I might be wrong“ etc. just add copy/paste all these softeners from this signature to make reading more comfortable for you. Otherwise I’m a fine person which respects you and everyone and wants to be respected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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