Affinity designer 2 PNG Export always blurry regardless of nearest neighbor setting

[J0schi]

Title & screenshot says it all, i am going crazy over this. How can i export pixel perfect in this software

Any suggestion is highly appreciated.

Kind Regards 
Patrick

 
https://gyazo.com/186f219fdbbad746cf831ef07853533a

IDK if its relevant but it also happens with with normal shapes, not only with fonts.


https://gyazo.com/c77449c517572d4c1409f252e54a542d

Edited September 22, 2023 by J0schi

[Lee D]

@J0schi Welcome to the forums and sorry for the delay.

For pixel art you ideally want to be using whole pixels without any "curved lines" and that they are aligned to a pixel grid.  When exporting to PNG (a raster format) they will have anti aliasing applied which you can adjust in the Blend Options for that layer, see this post and replies for more information.

[Mikeware]

This very much confused me as well. I went to export my images, and expect the 'Nearest Neighbour' to apply this on export to everything so I have no anti-aliasing in the final output. It's unintuitive to have to apply this to a per-layer basis within my document. This is something I want to change how the vector lines map on export for the document I'm creating at that time and select my different filtering options. Nearest Neighbour should provide me with the option for no aliasing, that's how it's documented in the help:

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Nearest Neighbor—simple resampling which has the fastest processing time. Use for hard-edge images.

I expect this setting in the export dialogue to make a visible change, from what I can see, any of the settings effectively do the same thing and are indistinguishable... so what's the point then?

See this with both PNG and WEBP formats. This wasted I don't know how much of my time, and required me to find this post with the link to the blend options, no way I would have associated that or discovered that otherwise. It's part of the export process, there's a setting there, it's what's intuitive and expected of the setting, and is documented for that purpose. It should perform that operation.