harriska2 Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 Hi, I'm new to Affinity (just purchased and downloaded the newest version the other day) and trying to reformat some old pictures I scanned in 600x600 resolution TIFF uncompressed files. When I select a part of the image, copy, then New from Clipboard, I am only able to save that clip as 96x96. Is there a way to keep the 600x600 resolution? If I simply export the TIFF or JPG it keeps it as 600x600. I have done this 1000 times thus far and am not really looking forward to doing it all again. I'm on Mojave and the resolution is according to my Mojave macOS within finder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 Instead of New from Clipboard, create a new document with its DPI set to 600. Paste your selection into that new document. You can use Document > Clip Canvas or Unclip Canvas as needed to adjust the document size to the dimensions of the selection. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.5 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harriska2 Posted January 9, 2019 Author Share Posted January 9, 2019 When creating new there is no 600dpi, which I think is different from 600x600. There is only 400dpi. I think there have been discussions on this but I don't really understand the difference. I just don't want to spend another week doing this only to get degraded images. I think I'll try out some other tools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 3 minutes ago, harriska2 said: There is only 400dpi. The slider only goes to 400 but you can enter larger values if you want. So for example, if you enter 600 in the field, you will get a document using 600 x 600 dpi as the default for whatever you paste into it. At that point, the dpi value will not degrade the image (because it is not changing the number of pixels in whatever you paste). See for example, the Affinity Photo - Understanding DPI video or the Understanding DPI Affinity Spotlight article for more about that. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.5 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harriska2 Posted January 11, 2019 Author Share Posted January 11, 2019 I read over the article and watched the video. I will have to agree that ignoring the DPI is probably the right thing to do. The images look correct. The size and resolution look correct. Thank you for saving me tons of work. I tried another app that has wonderful filters but was a pain to work in. It did continue reporting 600x600 but if I ignore that I'm good to go with Affinity. Except for rotating the photo and canvas. Not sure why that is so hard. And the filters aren't quite as good for my needs as the other app. But there it is. Thank you for the "Good news" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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