Show height and width of current selection in Info

[bblackmoor]

I am a new Affinity user, after many years on Photoshop. I would like to see the height and width (in pixels, or in whatever units are currently selected for the rulers) of the current selection. If the Info screen shows this, I am not seeing it.

Is there perhaps a setting to include this information in the Info screen? It is a pretty constant annoyance for me to not have this; I used it in Photoshop a LOT.

Thank you.

 

[v_kyr]

AFAIK the Info panel shows only temporary the w/h values, so when you use the Move tool and drag a rectangular area und keep holding the mouse button ...

... thus it's actually more used for inspecting custom rect temp dragged areas in sizes, than a permanent selected layer/object size indication like the Transform panel does show.

 

[bblackmoor]

4 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

...Move tool and drag a rectangular area und keep holding the mouse button ...

 

Yes, I can see the usefulness of that (and thank you), but that is not what I am looking for. I would prefer to select and just see the dimensions, without having to hold down buttons etc. Do you know if that is possible?

Also, I do not know what you mean by the Transform screen showing it. I have selected the black areas in the image below, but the Transform screen is grey and shows no information.

P.S. Should I call these screen elements "panels"? I only called them "screens" because I was (and still am) drawing a blank on what to properly call them.

[walt.farrell]

3 minutes ago, bblackmoor said:

Do you now if that is possible?

Use the Transform panel, not the Info panel, for that.

[bblackmoor]

Just now, walt.farrell said:

Use the Transform panel, not the Info panel, for that.

See my comment above. I was typing the bit about the Transform panel while you were typing.

[v_kyr]

1 minute ago, bblackmoor said:

... Do you now if that is possible?

For the Info panel AFAIK no, at least not in APh v1, can't tell if something changed here for APh v2. - But (as already said) the Transform panel always shows you the actual values for selected layers/objects.

[bblackmoor]

Just now, v_kyr said:

For the Info panel AFAIK no, at least not in APh v1, can't tell if something changed here for APh v2. - But (as already said) the Transform panel always shows you the actual values for selected layers/objects.

 

That does not match what I am seeing when an area is selected (see my screenshot above, please).

[v_kyr]

5 minutes ago, bblackmoor said:

That does not match what I am seeing when an area is selected (see my screenshot above, please).

Use and switch to the Move tool (arrow tool), not the View (aka Hand) tool!

Tools

• Photo editing tools
  • View Tool
  • Move Tool  <-- ***
  • Colour Picker Tool
  • Style Picker Tool
  • Measure Tool
  • Crop Tool
  • Zoom Tool

I would recommend to look through the Affinity Online help and some of the Affinity Tutorials, in order to get an overall better understanding of how the Affinity apps do operate & work!

[bblackmoor]

I apologize for not being clearer. I am not asking about using different tools. What I would like to do is select (with the mouse, or keyboard, or yes, perhaps with a color select tool etc., but not necessarily, or even usually), and then see the dimensions on the screen.

If this information is simply not shown, should I write up a feature request? I imagine that others might also find such a feature a useful addition to the Info box. (Personally, I am struggling without it.)

 

[iconoclast]

Are we talking about Affinity Photo or Designer? In fact, if I rasterize a shape in the Pixel Persona of Designer and select it, the dimensions don't show up in the Transform panel. But if I change to the Designer Persona, it works. Don't know if this is intended behavior.

In my Photo version (2.2 on Windows 10) it works.

[bblackmoor]

Just now, iconoclast said:

Are we talking about Affinity Photo or Designer?

I apologize: I should have specified that:

Windows 10 Pro 64
Affinity Photo 2.2.0

[v_kyr]

13 minutes ago, bblackmoor said:

I apologize for not being clearer. I am not asking about using different tools. What I would like to do is select (with the mouse, or keyboard, or yes, perhaps with a color select tool etc., but not necessarily, or even usually), and then see the dimensions on the screen.

Look at these different state screenshots and make yourself clear what I meant for APh above (I assume APh here, as you used the Info panel above) ...

 

So you usually select objects and layers with the Move tool here and then the Transform panel (for selected objects/layers) should normally indicate the objects dimensions. - The above screenshots also show partly the effect of the layers panel lock mode (if editable in the Transform panel or not).

 

[iconoclast]

Ah, I see, you created your shape with the Shape tool and rasterized it. And then you selected it using the Magic Wand? Right? In that case the dimensions don't show up even on my computer. Don't think that it is intended behavior. Probably a bug.

[bblackmoor]

Here is a very simple example of what I would like to see happen, because I feel I am still not communicating it well:

1. Open an image file.
2. Type CTRL-A. The entire image is now selected. (Yes, there are easier ways to see the dimensions of an entire image. But this is the simplest example I could think of.)
3. What are the dimensions of what I have selected? I would like to see this information on my screen. I would not like to have to click additional tools or keyboard combinations in order to see it.

[bblackmoor]

5 minutes ago, iconoclast said:

Ah, I see, you created your shape with the Shape tool and rasterized it.

 

In this case, yes, that is how I created it in Photoshop some years ago. But this could just as easily be a photograph of a dog against a white background. It's just a PNG I used as an example.

Should I report this as a bug, or as a feature request?

[iconoclast]

It is possibly caused by the Alpha channel. As I noticed, in the case I described above, I can see the dimensions of the selection in the Info panel. But this is new to me. I never noticed that before.

Edit: And, weird enough, if I transform the shape and redo that, suddenly the dimensions even show up in the Transform panel. Seems to be a bug.

[v_kyr]

11 minutes ago, bblackmoor said:

 

In this case, yes, that is how I created it in Photoshop some years ago. But this could just as easily be a photograph of a dog against a white background. It's just a PNG.

In this case the rectangular marquee tool (if active on the tools on the left) should already show that up. The Flood select one doesn't, probably a bug or it's not associated with showing up sel dimensions.

[iconoclast]

As it seems, the Transform panel doesn't show the dimensions of selections. Only that one of areas on a layer that contain pixels. But if you click on the layer of the shape, it should show it's dimensions. On condition that there are no hidden pixels somewhere on that layer, that distort the measurement.

[v_kyr]

10 minutes ago, iconoclast said:

As it seems, the Transform panel doesn't show the dimensions of selections.

It depends ...

 

 

[bblackmoor]

Thank you for your responses. I have submitted a feature request:

 

 

[stingray]

On 10/9/2023 at 5:28 PM, bblackmoor said:

I would like to see the height and width (in pixels, or in whatever units are currently selected for the rulers) of the current selection. If the Info screen shows this, I am not seeing it.

Is there perhaps a setting to include this information in the Info screen? It is a pretty constant annoyance for me to not have this; I used it in Photoshop a LOT.

Agree 100%. I would like to see this in the Info panel too (after making a selection and releasing the mouse button, the values for the width and the height should be retained in the W and H fields of the Info panel).