AffinityNewbie7 Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 I have been using AD for the past week and am already in love with it! Big thanks to Serif for developing the software for such a small price. I do lots of technical illustration or microscopy image editing where I need to show the "scale bar" of the image. Is there a way to do that in Affinity Designer or Photo? For example, I have the below image that I would like to crop and edit, then put the scale bar in the cropped/edited image at the same pixel scale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 If you have your image and your scale both at the correct magnification and, provided you do not resize either of these, then you can crop and edit them as much as you like. I would presume that they are on separate layers. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffinityNewbie7 Posted December 3, 2018 Author Share Posted December 3, 2018 7 minutes ago, John Rostron said: If you have your image and your scale both at the correct magnification and, provided you do not resize either of these, then you can crop and edit them as much as you like. I would presume that they are on separate layers. John Both the image and the scale bar is in the same layer and at the correct magnification, so resizing the image resizes both properly. How do I redraw the new scale bar based on the old one? Which software should I use, AD or AP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 You could use either. I would begin with your existing image as background. Then add a layer containing a rectangle scaled to the same size as your current one. Then add a fill, the same as your original white (or different should you wish). Then add a Text item (either Artistic Text or a Text Box) with a suitably-sized font and colour. The font size will probably have to be trial-and-error! You might then like to group the scale bar and the Text item. Having the scale bar as its own layer means that the fill could be changed for a differently coloured image. Similarly for the text. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffinityNewbie7 Posted December 3, 2018 Author Share Posted December 3, 2018 Thanks for the tip, can I use Affinity Designer to crop, edit and adjust TIFF images? Or should I get Affinity Photo to do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 Depends on the degree of TIFF image manipulations you have in mind here beside cropping and adding those "scale bars". Both apps can deal (import/export) and showup TIFF files, so if you are only going to add those "scale bars" you can do that and simple bitmap based operations in Affinity Designer too. However if you plan to do more advanced bitmap image manipulations with TIFF files, Affinity Photo would offers more image manipulation functionality here. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffinityNewbie7 Posted December 3, 2018 Author Share Posted December 3, 2018 3 hours ago, John Rostron said: I would begin with your existing image as background. Then add a layer containing a rectangle scaled to the same size as your current one. How do I measure the length of the existing scale bar? I need to first know the length in pixels, the rest is easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 6 minutes ago, AffinityNewbie7 said: How do I measure the length of the existing scale bar? Load/place your TIFF image into AD change to the pixel persona select the scale bar with the rectangle selection tool read the shown pixel values from the right side inside of the transformation panel Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffinityNewbie7 Posted December 3, 2018 Author Share Posted December 3, 2018 8 minutes ago, v_kyr said: select the scale bar with the rectangle selection tool I could not find it, do you mean the Rectangular Marquee tool? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 Yes a rectangular one. -> Marquee Selection Tools Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 1 minute ago, AffinityNewbie7 said: I could not find it, do you mean the Rectangular Marquee tool? Yes Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 46 minutes ago, AffinityNewbie7 said: How do I measure the length of the existing scale bar? I need to first know the length in pixels, the rest is easy. What I had in mind was that you draw your rectangle directly on top of the existing scale bar. No need to measure anything then. John AffinityNewbie7 1 Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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