gordo Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 There doesn't seem to be a way of scaling images by a % value (e.g. select an image and scale it to 35%). I would like to be able to double click or option click on an image and enter a % value to scale the image. When manually scaling an image, selecting a corner and dragging it scales the image proportionally - in every other application one has to hold the "Shift" key down to constrain the image to scale proportionally. But the same rule doesn't apply when scaling by selecting the edge of a picture and dragging it. If you don't hold the shift key doing that the image scales in only one dimension. IMHO The Shift key should always be required to be pressed to constrain the scaling. (This is on MAC OS) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 7 minutes ago, gordo said: There doesn't seem to be a way of scaling images by a % value (e.g. select an image and scale it to 35%). I would like to be able to double click or option click on an image and enter a % value to scale the image. Select the image in the Layers panel. In the Transform panel, with the aspect ration locked, type *.35 into the width or height field. Press enter. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 19 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: type *.35 into the width heh, that is not percentage type 35% and enter Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordo Posted September 23, 2018 Author Share Posted September 23, 2018 24 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Select the image in the Layers panel. In the Transform panel, with the aspect ration locked, type *.35 into the width or height field. Press enter. Whoa. Typing *.35 does not give you the same result as typing .35. How is one supposed to know that they should add *? Methinks it's a screwy GUI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 24 minutes ago, gordo said: Whoa. Typing *.35 does not give you the same result as typing .35. Why should it? 0.35 is an absolute value, so you can’t expect the program to know you intend it to be used as a multiplier unless you specify that. As @Fixx has said, you can simply type 35% instead; *35% would work just as well, but there’s nothing to be gained by prefixing the asterisk character. Quote How is one supposed to know that they should add *? Methinks it's a screwy GUI. Shouldn’t that be “a scrui GUI”? Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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