Unsharpen Screenshots

[Morrich_Dilemma]

Hello everyone,

 

When I make a screenshot on my PC and open it in Affinity Designer, t's unsharpen in editing mode.

After exporting the file to destkop it's sharp again in the preview.

 

Using Windows 10 and Affinity Designer 1.6.4.104.

 

Greetings

[Gabe]

Hi @Morrich_Dilemma,

 

Welcome to the forums. 

 

The image may look sharper or blurred depending on the zoom level, and this behaviour is absolutely normal as you're fitting in more source pixels in just one output pixel. Let's take for example a photo 1920x1080 and a monitor with 1920x1080. If you look at it with 50% zoom, it's going to look blurry as instead of mapping 1 pixel of your image for 1 pixel on your screen, it's mapping 4 pixels from your image to only 1 on your screen. 

 

Thanks,

Gabe. 

[Morrich_Dilemma]

Here you can see a screenshot of this forum topic. 

I don't think this is only the aspect ratio...

I also tried to zoom in and there has never been a zoom option where the picture was sharp.

[Gabe]

That's normal. It really depends on your screen resolution, windows scaling and the zoom size. Bear in mind that you're not truly seeing pixel per pixel unless you're zoomed at 100 %. Anything zoom values below 100% would compress/average pixels into one target pixel. 

[R C-R]

28 minutes ago, Morrich_Dilemma said:

Here you can see a screenshot of this forum topic.

But we can see that it is zoomed to not even to an integer % of its actual size:

Try zooming to 100% using the navigator panel or the View menu.

 

[Alfred]

6 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Try zooming to 100% using the navigator panel or the View menu.

 

Or using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+1 (the Windows equivalent of Cmd+1 on a Mac).

[MEB]

Hi Morrich_Dilemma,

Welcome to Affinity Forums

Go to Affinity Designer Preferences, Performance section and change the View Quality dropdown to Bilinear (Best Quality).