First post and Export jpeg physical size not same as document size

[Vaccam]

Hello All, 

Just joined the forum and this is my first post. Hope to learn a lot from all of you and hope to be contributing soon. 

I am in the process of moving from Lightroom and PhotoShop for my image editing to Affinity Photo. I needed to create a 2-inch by 2-inch image today from a photo I took and needed to revert back to PhotoShop to get the output that I wanted. Within Affinity Photo, I opened my original image which was a 600 by 600 pixel 300 dpi image and used Document/Resize Document to change it to a 2-inch by 2-inch image. When I save the image as a .afphoto image and reopen it in Affinity Photo, the image is 2-inch by 2-inch (Document/Resize Document). However, when I export the image as a 600 by 600-pixel jpeg and then reopen the jpeg image in Affinity Photo the image document size is 8.333-inch by 8.333-inch (Document/Resize Document). 

Is there a way to specify the physical image size when exporting as a jpeg?

Thank you for any info you can provide,

Michael

[MEB]

Hi mjvacca,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
There's a known issue/conflict between a custom dpi value set by the user and the original dpi value of the image. If you click the More button in the export dialog and untick Embed metadata, the exported image will honour the dpi you have set. This issue was already fixed in the upcoming Photo v1.7 - there's a Customer Beta available which you can get from here (Mac) and here (Win) in case you want to give it a try.

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[Vaccam]

MEB,

Thank you for the reply. I did not realize I had used my email address for my username. Thank you very much for pointing this out to me. I have updated it. 

Thank you for the info regarding my issue. I see that I am on version 1.6.11, when I check for updates it says I am up to date. Has v1.7 been released?

Thank you for the quick support. 

Michael

[John Rostron]

The retail version of 1.7 has not been released (which is why 1.6 tells you there is no update). The links in @MEB's message  are for the Customer Beta version of 1.7. Click on one of those to download it.

John

[Vaccam]

11 minutes ago, MEB said:

There's a known issue/conflict between a custom dpi value set by the user and the original dpi value of the image. If you click the More button in the export dialog and untick Embed metadata, the exported image will honour the dpi you have set. This issue was already fixed in the upcoming Photo v1.7 - there's a Customer Beta available which you can get from here (Mac) and here (Win) in case you want to give it a try.

BTW, this suggestion does fix my issue. 

Thanks again, 

Michael

[Vaccam]

Just now, John Rostron said:

The retail version of 1.7 has not been released (which is why 1.6 tells you there is no update). The links in @MEB'messageare for the Customer Beta version of 1.7. Click on one of those to download it.

John

Thanks John! I missed MEB's imbedded link. 

Michael

[Vaccam]

MEB, 

I downloaded and installed the Mac version of v1.7. It does fix my issue. 

Thanks again, 

Michael