Jas06 Posted January 24 Posted January 24 Hi. When using the Photopea online photo editor, if a Selection tool is used to make a shape anywhere on the canvas or a selection is placed around an individual layer, it causes guides, when they are created, for example 3 columns and 3 rows, to be restricted to being placed within the bounds of that selection as shown in my images. Is this possible in any way when using Affinity Photo 2. I've searched the forum and Google, but haven't been able to find a way of achieving this. Thank you. Quote
NotMyFault Posted January 24 Posted January 24 To my knowledge you can‘t create guides based on selections directly. there are possible crude workarounds, e.g. using the crop tool, then create guides, then uncropping. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
R C-R Posted January 24 Posted January 24 38 minutes ago, NotMyFault said: To my knowledge you can create guides based on selections directly. Can or can't? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
NotMyFault Posted January 24 Posted January 24 1 hour ago, R C-R said: Can or can't? Can’t can’t R C-R 1 Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
GarryP Posted January 25 Posted January 25 16 hours ago, Jas06 said: if a Selection tool is used to make a shape anywhere on the canvas or a selection is placed around an individual layer, it causes guides, when they are created, for example 3 columns and 3 rows, to be restricted to being placed within the bounds of that selection While you can’t get guides to be automatically created from a pixel selection, there is a Snapping option called “Snap to pixel selection bounds” which might get you close to what you want. See attached video. 2025-01-25 09-52-46.mp4 Quote
Jas06 Posted January 25 Author Posted January 25 I managed to achieve what I was after by simply adjusting the Margins independently of each other. No need for the use of a pixel selection after all. Affinity Guides.mp4 Quote
carl123 Posted January 25 Posted January 25 9 minutes ago, Jas06 said: I managed to achieve what I was after by simply adjusting the Margins independently of each other. Out of interest why do you need a grid like this for your images? What are you doing with it or to your images? Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
NotMyFault Posted January 25 Posted January 25 Another way is using designer, create an artboard from layer, then create grid of 3x3. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
NotMyFault Posted January 25 Posted January 25 1 hour ago, carl123 said: Out of interest why do you need a grid like this for your images? What are you doing with it or to your images? Even the crop tool allows to (temporarily) show a 3x3 grid. It is often used to check the composition of objects in the photography Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
carl123 Posted January 25 Posted January 25 12 minutes ago, NotMyFault said: Even the crop tool allows to (temporarily) show a 3x3 grid. It is often used to check the composition of objects in the photography Yup. I know how it's used when cropping images but there has to be another reason the OP needs that grid Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
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