stevepitman Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 In Photoshop you can paste an image from your Mac 'clipboard' onto a PS layer, then press [cmd]T to resize the pasted image on that layer (without needing to resize the whole PS file's image). I can't replicate that behaviour in Affinity Photo and resize the image after pasting onto a layer (NB: I don't want to seize the WHOLE Affinity Photo file, as that needs to stay the same size - I just need to resize the image I've pasted in). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted March 26, 2015 Staff Share Posted March 26, 2015 Hi stevepitman, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) After pasting the image, select the Move tool, click on the image and resize it from the corners, dragging the bounding box control handle. Kirsten and Ravel 2 A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevepitman Posted March 26, 2015 Author Share Posted March 26, 2015 Thank you - so obvious after someone tells you how to do it! (I need to get out of that Photoshop mindset!) Mithferion 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cross7fu Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 but how do you flip it horizontally or vertically? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 Menu > Arrange > Flip horizontal (vertical) ... Right click > context menu > Transform > Flip horizontal (vertical) ... ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chovy Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 I could not resize a layer. I dragged an image into AP and then tried move tool + T, cmd-T etc. etc. How do I scale a layer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted May 3, 2015 Staff Share Posted May 3, 2015 Is the layer locked? (little X's at the corners?) If so, unlock by pressing the small padlock button in the layers panel :) Thanks, Andy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billtils Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 The videos at vimeo.com/channels/875980 are worth a look too. Retina iMac (4K display, 1TB SSD, 16GB RAM) OS X 10.11.6 Capture One 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEK Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Hi! Is there a way to see the size in pixels of the object that you are transforming? And the x,y coordinates of the object on the canvas? Thanks! Mary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gear maker Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Hi Mary, Welcome to AD. Check out the Transform panel, part of the Transform History Navigator group. iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) with macOS Sierra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravel Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Hi stevepitman, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) After pasting the image, select the Move tool, click on the image and resize it from the corners, dragging the bounding box control handle. That's a more easy way than Photoshop, amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEK Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Gear Maker! Perfect! That's exactly what I'm looking for! Thank you so much! Mary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckgdm Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 Can anyone offer any advise - I'm manually transforming a layer (shrinking it in proportion) but the quality is effected a lot. Is there a way to prevent this? I understand that choosing a different resampling method when resizing to a specific size using the menu is the answer normally but I need to be able to manually change it without knowing the pixels size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gear maker Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 ckgdm, if you go into Preferences > Performance > View quality is this set to Nearest Neighbor or Bilinear? This should only affect the quality of what is seem on the screen, not your output. Not sure if that is what you are meaning. I'm assuming you are talking about AD not AP. I hope this helps. iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) with macOS Sierra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckgdm Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Thanks for that. I am in Affinity Photo. What I am doing is taking screen grabs and placing them on top of a monitor graphic to replicate the look of viewing a website on a computer screen. The quality of the screen grab after I have manually shrunk it seems worse than if I were to just zoom out for example. My settings are set to Bilinear. The quality does seem better in the output than when working on the project though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matyjasz Posted July 31, 2016 Share Posted July 31, 2016 Only moaning. Move tool doesn't work when I've chosen 'SOME' options before. God knows what was it, I can't remember, project started from scratch and cmd-v'ed image behaves bad - I can't select it, I can't move it, I can't scale it, I can't do any operations on it. Because I've chosen some options before, that's ok that pasted image behaves like a little b****, but after opening a project again it should let me to act normally. Sorry about that rant, but I'm really trying to jump onto Affinity from PS, so it's crucial for me that it works as I want. Supplementing this - I've tried all known methods to work on pasted image, but it's one big failure. Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranjit Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 Only moaning. Move tool doesn't work when I've chosen 'SOME' options before. God knows what was it, I can't remember, project started from scratch and cmd-v'ed image behaves bad - I can't select it, I can't move it, I can't scale it, I can't do any operations on it. Because I've chosen some options before, that's ok that pasted image behaves like a little b****, but after opening a project again it should let me to act normally. Sorry about that rant, but I'm really trying to jump onto Affinity from PS, so it's crucial for me that it works as I want. Supplementing this - I've tried all known methods to work on pasted image, but it's one big failure. Any suggestions? Hi, had the same problem ... turned out to be caused by snapping. turned that off and all was well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TatianKa Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 ckgdm, if you go into Preferences > Performance > View quality is this set to Nearest Neighbor or Bilinear? This should only affect the quality of what is seem on the screen, not your output. Not sure if that is what you are meaning. I'm assuming you are talking about AD not AP. I hope this helps. Perfect advice! Worked for me! Thank you so much!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncoy Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 Thanks for this answer. I was doing all kinds of contortions with cropping tool, select tool, selecting layers, transform. Finally with the right answer, it's easy as pie and very intuitive. Perhaps the software should come with a hammer that hits you over the head when you open the box to let new users know how to resize layers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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