Clipboard size - new document

[Thomahawk]

One of the most fundamental functions is copy a part of an image and quickly pass it into a new document. Sadly, this does not work if the dialogue for the new document does not respect the content of the clipboard. I can not believe such a basic thing does not work in Affinity photo!

[stokerg]

1 hour ago, Thomahawk said:

One of the most fundamental functions is copy a part of an image and quickly pass it into a new document. Sadly, this does not work if the dialogue for the new document does not respect the content of the clipboard. I can not believe such a basic thing does not work in Affinity photo!

Have you tried copying part of an image and clicking File>New From Clipboard? 

That will give you a new image the size of what you've copied.

If i'm missing something, please explain further and i can get an improvement logged  

[Thomahawk]

My bad. Did not look for that way to go. Thanks!

[hifred]

I just don't see value in having this (new from clipboard) a separate command. Many of your users totally expect to get offered creation of a new file from clipboard bitmaps and won't even look for an alternative implementation. Such is not only a source of error but also of avoidable support requests.

Breaking something into a command of its own only makes sense if one can't reach a particular goal with a single command. That does not apply here: Ctrl/CMD + N should do just fine.

[Polygonius]

That just for new docs. Not for eg. placing one/several images. It would be fine to have a  "place as best-fit to canvas" option. Meaning the longest side of an image will automatically fit to the current canvas and the (often not fitting) smaller side will proportional taken as it best (not canvas- scaled). This kind of  "placing" should start at X/Y zero-point automatically.

 

[hifred]

10 minutes ago, Polygonius said:

That just for new docs.

We did not talk about anything else here.