Resizing selection without anti-aliasing

[unlinked]

I'm looking for some help to work out the best way to scale small pixel regions to fill a larger area in Affinity Photo (copying rather than resampling the original pixels) for very small pixel-aligned assets. In Photoshop I would marquee select some pixels, execute Transform to scale the selection and the pixels are copied:

If I try a similar approach in Affinity Photo, the original selection is scaled but the pixels are resampled rather than copied:

I suspect this is intentional but has anyone got a good workflow for quick copying of small selections to a large area without resorting to multiple copy operations?

Thanks!

[Dan C]

Hi unlinked,

Welcome to the forums

As you have mentioned, this is the intended product outcome in Affinity, and currently there is no way to disable re-sampling. Unfortunately the workaround I would suggest is multiple copy operations, however you can use smart duplication to speed things up. If you copy one column of pixels and transform them to their desired location, then use the shortcut 'cmd/ctrl + J', the selection will be duplicated and Affinity will apply the same transformations as before, as such:

[unlinked]

Hi Dan, It's a shame it's not quite as simple as PS but thanks very much for your workaround, better than anything I could come up with!

[mickeyvpn]

Hey guys,

This feature is very handy for 3D artists, I hope you will add support for Anti-aliasing option in the future.

[harkejuice]

I would also like anti-aliasing to have some sort of toggle, currently it makes working with line art rather difficult.