Features to catch up with photoshop

[togaether]

Hey guys, I have bought affinity photo after I bought the affinity designer (which is very good so far) and I gotta say I am a little disappointed.

even paint.net can let me open a new element/photo whatsoever and automatically size it according to what I copied last. lets say i took a 500x300 pixel part of a picture the new document would automatically suggest me 500x300 pixel. or if I extract an element photoshop does automatically give me the minimal size I need to fit the element into a new photo project or whatever the new document is called here.

thats a very very important feature, since by default I do not even know how big the element is i select in affinity photo. if thats supposed to be a photoshop or even a paint.net killer, thats mandatory.

 

furthermore, I am having problems selecting parts of layers. so I add a new picture to the existing one and on the right select it (as a layer i suppose - at least thats how it usually works) and mark a specific area on the left and copy it, the element I try to past then to a new document is something complete different - mostly the whole picture!

can you tell me what I am doing wrong?

[togaether]

oh yeah and the automatically saved format is .afphoto and I can not change it to png or so unless i export it. thats very annoying...

[Alfred]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @togaether.

 

On the File menu (at least in the Windows versions of the Affinity apps) there is a 'New From Clipboard' option which will create a new document at the size of the image on the clipboard. As for your copying/pasting problem, look at the Layers panel where you'll find that the layer from which you're trying to copy is designated as '(Image)'; this type of layer is a single object, and you can transform it (i.e. move, resize or rotate it) without losing quality, but to copy or otherwise manipulate a pixel selection you need to right-click it in the Layers panel and choose 'Rasterize...' so that its layer type changes to '(Pixel)'.

 

It's quite normal in many apps for 'Save' or 'Save As...' to use a proprietary format for ease of editing in a later session. To my mind, having to choose explicitly to export to a flattened format is much safer than having the program decide for me and losing all of my layers and adjustments!

[Bri-Toon]

4 hours ago, Alfred said:

On the File menu (at least in the Windows versions of the Affinity apps) there is a 'New From Clipboard' option which will create a new document at the size of the image on the clipboard.

 

It's the same for Mac, and I had no idea of this option. I'm glad you mentioned it since I copy and paste into Photo quite often.