Stretch Handle Issue

[Geowil]

It is probably easier to show than explain this but I am seeing it all over the place since the more recent update in Affinity Photo:

 

 

Not sure if it is visible but I have the marquee tool highlighting any pixels in the layer and it is only around the small rectangle object but the move handles extend way beyond the size of the stuff in the layer.  Again, seeing a lot of this ever since the last update as well as an increase in artifiacting of the view port (I don't have any screens of that yet but I will try to get one).

 

Is there a setting somewhere that controls how the handles are determined or is this a bug?

[R C-R]

In your screenshot, the Move Tool is selected, not one of the marquee selection tools. This will place a bounding box around the full extent of the layer (in this instance a pixel layer). The bounding box will including any areas you have erased from the layer -- even though the pixels are transparent, they are still part of that layer.

 

There are several ways to reduce the size of the pixel layer to just the rectangle that contains only its non-tranparent pixels. Probably the simplest is to CMD click (on a Mac, probably Control-click on Windows) on the Layer's thumbnail, invert the pixel selection (on the Select menu or via its assigned keyboard shortcut), & tap the delete key.

[Geowil]

In your screenshot, the Move Tool is selected, not one of the marquee selection tools. This will place a bounding box around the full extent of the layer (in this instance a pixel layer). The bounding box will including any areas you have erased from the layer -- even though the pixels are transparent, they are still part of that layer.

 

There are several ways to reduce the size of the pixel layer to just the rectangle that contains only its non-tranparent pixels. Probably the simplest is to CMD click (on a Mac, probably Control-click on Windows) on the Layer's thumbnail, invert the pixel selection (on the Select menu or via its assigned keyboard shortcut), & tap the delete key.

 

The image is not large but I did do this in the screen capture, you can barely see the marquee selection outline around the rectangle.  I even did the procedure you suggested (had to do it all of the time in Photoshop) and both tried deleting any pixels and also going over it with a size 300 eraser tool before posting and many times prior.  It did not fix the problem.

 

What did fix the problem was moving the rectangles around in the layer.  I moved them to my designed final placement for them and the move tool handles are not stretching all the way across the view port now.  Not sure why this worked.

 

Again, this kind of thing is happening in every project I have started since the last update.  If it were just a pixel issue that should not be the case unless AP is creating them on its own for whatever reason.

[R C-R]

When you tried the procedure I mentioned, did you invert the pixel selection & then press the delete key on your keyboard? Erasing pixels with the eraser will not work for this -- the pixels are still there in the layer. Likewise, if the marquee selection is larger than the bounding box (the outline & handles you see with the Move tool selected), inverting it & pressing the delete key will do nothing because the inverted selection does not include any of the layer's pixels.