Resizing picture frames - major BUG!

[Bo Lovenhjelm]

Iv'e used the Picture frame tool to place an image in document. Then moved around the image a bit in the frame to get visible part of image just right.
Then tried to resize the picture fram containing the image to get it to the right size, the image placement in the image frame defaults back to original placement in the picture frame no matter what I try and I have to do to the positioning procedure all over again. This happens every time I resize a picture frame where I've repositioned image in frame after original placement.

 

[GarryP]

I could very easily be wrong but Picture Frames seem to have been created for certain specific ways of working as they have extra built-in functionality that doesn't exist in 'normal' Image layers. Have you tried using the Place Image tool instead? Does that get you what you want?

[SwissGraphicDesign]

I noticed the same problem, when i was trying to make a slight adjustment to the width of an image-frame, the image jumps back to its initial size.

Cropping and resizing pictures is one of the most important features for me. At the moment it is very easy to stretch images, which is exactly what i don't want, because it distorts the pictures. 

I hope in the final Version of Affinity Publisher it will be possible to place, move and crop pictures like i do all day in Indesign at the moment. 
In Indesign also the black and white cursors make sense: black = move whole image, white=move picture inside. 

 

[Eugene Tyson]

Yeh - same here. 

Place an image puts an image standalone in the app - and you can crop it just fine. 

Place that image into a frame - and crop it, resize it and it jumps back.

 

Not ideal if you're placing an image into a custom shape and want to resize.

[AlainP]

Same behavior here on Windows 10. Double click the image to make it smaller than the picture frame,. Now resize the picture frame, the image goes back to its original size.

[walt.farrell]

For all of you having this problem, have you investigated the Scaling options available in the Frame Properties dialog, available via the button in the Context Menu when you have a Picture Frame selected?

[AlainP]

19 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

For all of you having this problem, have you investigated the Scaling options available in the Frame Properties dialog, available via the button in the Context Menu when you have a Picture Frame selected?

Yes I tried all options, but the problem still remains. There is no way to resize the image and then resize the picture frame to show just a part of the image. Options make the image full size, fit in frame, distorted.... 

The only work around is to put the image outside of the picture frame, resize both to the size you want and then put the image as a child layer of the picture frame.

[walt.farrell]

1 minute ago, AlainP said:

There is no way to resize the image and then resize the picture frame to show just a part of the image.

I must not understand what you're trying to do.

Why not make the frame the size you want, and then place the image?

[Eugene Tyson]

7 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

I must not understand what you're trying to do.

Why not make the frame the size you want, and then place the image?

Because you need to resize frames afterwards on some occassions.

 

Replicate the issue

Draw a frame
File>Place
Select an image
Resize the image in the frame
Resize the frame. 

The image snaps back to the original size and position.

This is undesired behaviour.

[SwissGraphicDesign]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

I must not understand what you're trying to do.

Why not make the frame the size you want, and then place the image?

I understand perfectly what he wants to do. While layouting it is very common to slightly adjust the widths and heights of image frames in your layout as well as to try out slightly different image-clippings. None of the four options in "Properties" does allow it to do this.

In my opinion, how Indesign does it by default works perfectly. 

[MEB]

Hi Bo Lovenhjelm,
I already filled a bug report for this. Please avoid to create multiple threads to report the same bug as this makes tracking/following the issue more difficult. Here's the original thread I replied to. And yet another duplicated thread I had to lock/close.