IvanGogh Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 Hey there. Just got the program and it's been pretty good so far. However, I keep running into this strange effect at certain zoom levels and I can't figure out how to get rid of it. I'll upload some attachments showing the problem. This one has the weird effect happening: This one is clean, at just one zoom level below the previous one: Any help is appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 Hi @IvanGogh and welcome to the forums. When you draw vector shapes or lines in Affinity Photo, they are rasterized. And depending on the zoom level and whether anti-aliasing was turned on when you drew the objects, the raster effect is then visible. It is an interaction of the pixel density and screen resolution of the monitor, the pixel density of the document and the size of the drawing pen/brush. Quote MAC mini M4 | MacOS Sequoia 15.1.1 | 16 GB RAM | 256 GB SSD AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (26100.2161) Affinity Suite V 2.5.6 & Beta 2.6 (latest) Interested in a free (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Ferengi Acquisition Rule No. 49: “A deal is a deal is a deal.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 3 hours ago, Komatös said: When you draw vector shapes or lines in Affinity Photo, they are rasterized. Vector shapes or lines are not rasterized in Photo. However, when Photo displays them it uses a pixel-based display rather than a vector-based display. That is, they remain vector, but zooming in can show pixel rasterization on the screen. 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, 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...
IvanGogh Posted July 14, 2023 Author Share Posted July 14, 2023 (edited) 9 hours ago, Komatös said: Hi @IvanGogh and welcome to the forums. When you draw vector shapes or lines in Affinity Photo, they are rasterized. And depending on the zoom level and whether anti-aliasing was turned on when you drew the objects, the raster effect is then visible. It is an interaction of the pixel density and screen resolution of the monitor, the pixel density of the document and the size of the drawing pen/brush. So what you're saying is there's no way around it? I don't really get a similar issue with any other programs I own. Edited July 14, 2023 by IvanGogh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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