Lines for the center in Affinity Photo (Windows)

[Siny]

Hello. Is it possiblein for Affinity Photo 2 to see  imgaes/picture center position on the Layer? 

(Today I installed a trial version, I'll see if I'll be able to get used to)

Thanks

Edited June 18, 2024 by Siny

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @Siny

Can you tell us:

• why you want to see the centre positions of the image;
• when you want to be able to see them (and when not);
• what you want to see at these centre positions;
• what you want to be able to do with them once you can see them;
• whether you want to interact with them or have them interact with something else?

[Siny]

Something like Photoshop have, for example PNG photographs that it can be centered accurately. Lines horizontally and vertically indicating the middle.

hmmm...I don't know how to explain it.

[GarryP]

I don’t use Photoshop but it sounds like you might want to use guides.

Go to the “View” menu and choose “Guides”.
Then click on the “Add new horizontal guide” button in the left-hand ‘pane’ of that dialog.
Then click on the “Add new vertical guide” button in the ‘pane’ to the right of that.
Then Close the dialog.

If you cannot see the guides then use menu “View → Show Guides”.

If you want the guides to stay where they are and not allow you to drag them around about then choose menu “View → Lock Guides”.

If that doesn’t get you what you want then we might need more detail.

[walt.farrell]

With Snapping enabled, you should see red and green dynamic guides that will appear as you are moving objects around to help you position them.

https://affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/pages/DesignAids/dynamicGuides.html

[Brian_J]

51 minutes ago, Siny said:

Something like Photoshop have, for example PNG photographs that it can be centered accurately. Lines horizontally and vertically indicating the middle.

(Edit: Walt beat me to it. 🙂)

In addition to the Guides that GarryP mentioned, if you’d like to position objects relative to the canvas or relative to other objects, there are two ways to do that: Snapping and Aligning.

I’m thinking Snapping may be what you want. There are Snapping options that enable aligning objects to the middle of the canvas (Snap to spread + Include spread mid points) and snapping to the middle of other objects (Snap to object bounding boxes + Include bounding box mid points).

Snapping
https://affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/pages/DesignAids/snapping.html

The Alignment feature is also an option. You can select objects and align them relative to one another or relative to the canvas.

Aligning
https://affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/pages/LayerOperations/align.html