Photo 2: Please Revisit The New Image Form

[Oatmeal]

setting up pre-sets is ok but the landscape/portrait toggle at the top-right of the preset list gets in the way when you have a varied workload. It simply does not need to exist and causes a second mouse click when creating a new document based on a portrait aspect ratio preset after working on a previous landscape aspect ratio preset.

This problem was created with version 2.0 and still exists in Photo 2.2 and Designer 2.2.

Is there a workaround that I'm missing?

[Old Bruce]

3 hours ago, Oatmeal said:

Is there a workaround that I'm missing?

No. This was a big mistake in my opinion. Make a pair of presets, Landscape and Portrait orientation. Make them 8" x 10" with margins set to give a 6" square dead centre. I challenge the folks at Affinity to explain to me why this new method is an improvement.

[Pšenda]

53 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

I challenge the folks at Affinity to explain to me why this new method is an improvement.

I doubt the developers will explain their decisions to you.

For me, this is clearly the right step, because it was completely wrong to have to create two identical templates just for different orientations of an otherwise completely identical document. Unfortunately, the possibility of creating a template for only one orientation was not remembered, which is definitely needed in some cases. So it is the right approach (the possibility of creating one document definition for both orientations), but it needs to be finished.

[Oatmeal]

such a waste of time if you work with different aspect ration presets.

the only workaround I can think of is to create a folder, fill it with blank *.afphoto files at the resolutions and orientations you want. Then make a copy of the one you want before opening it to start your work.  What they've built now is simply incompetent.

[Oatmeal]

and still not corrected... 🤦

[walt.farrell]

On 9/23/2023 at 8:34 PM, Oatmeal said:

the only workaround I can think of is to create a folder, fill it with blank *.afphoto files at the resolutions and orientations you want. Then make a copy of the one you want before opening it to start your work.  What they've built now is simply incompetent.

You can simplify that by making .aftemplate files of the sizes/orientations you need, and adding the folder in as a Template folder.

[Oatmeal]

24 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

You can simplify that by making .aftemplate files of the sizes/orientations you need, and adding the folder in as a Template folder.

Thanks. that is a better workaround

 

[Oatmeal]

2.4 didn't change or fix this  and am still using the .template workaround.

[fernand0n]

I had no idea till now that I could choose between landscape and portrait. Poor design choice IMHO