Photo place/macro help.

[ianmac65]

Hopefully someone knows a solution to this problem as it's driving me nuts!

I am trying to create a macro that will place a png banner at the top of a photo. As I go through the steps of creating the macro everything seems fine until I run/play the macro! The banner I create at the top of the photo is significantly enlarged and off the side of the photo. As per photo, the banner is supposed to be in the red area but as you can see it has been enlarged and is now in a different position going off the document.

I normally do this in Photoshop and had hoped that this might be something Affinity can do.

Thanks

Ian

[Dan C]

Hi ianmac65,

Welcome to the forums

When creating the macro, was it recorded in the document you've provided a screenshot for? I ask this as we're currently aware of an issue with placing images in a macro when the aspect ratio of the document does not match the aspect ratio from the original document used when the macro was created.

Could you provide a screenshot of your macro, and the steps involved?

[walt.farrell]

The aspect ratio, dpi, and pixel dimensions of the images involved (during recording, and during replay) could all be significant, I think.

[v_kyr]

2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

The aspect ratio, dpi, and pixel dimensions of the images involved (during recording, and during replay) could all be significant, I think.

YES, actually macro recording/replay uses always fixed sizes instead of determining in a dynamic way the doc/image sizes here. Thus it can't take different doc sizes etc. into account and is pretty useless for such sort of generic watermark placing or the like in macros at all.

[ianmac65]

On 2/10/2019 at 1:51 AM, Dan C said:

Hi ianmac65,

Welcome to the forums

When creating the macro, was it recorded in the document you've provided a screenshot for? I ask this as we're currently aware of an issue with placing images in a macro when the aspect ratio of the document does not match the aspect ratio from the original document used when the macro was created.

Could you provide a screenshot of your macro, and the steps involved?

Hi - sorry for the delay getting back to you. I had to go overseas and just got back. My trial has since expired so i'll try to remember the steps I took to create the macro.

1. I opened the image above and started recording a macro.
2. I resized the image to 1280px of the longest edge
3. I placed the banner image I wanted in the top centre of the image
4. Flattened the layers and stoped recording.

Then I closed the image and went to batch processor, selected a folder of images, selected a save to folder, added the macro I created and ran it. All the images processed and went to the correct folder but the banner was enlarged, lower down and off the main image as the above image shows.

Interestingly, I seem to recall that if I just run the macro on an already open image it did what I was expecting it to (I think)

[Dan C]

Thanks for that information, it's very useful.

I can confirm this is a known bug in Affinity Photo and is logged with our developers to be fixed. I'll update this log with your thread now, hopefully this will be fixed shortly!

[ianmac65]

12 hours ago, Dan C said:

Thanks for that information, it's very useful.

I can confirm this is a known bug in Affinity Photo and is logged with our developers to be fixed. I'll update this log with your thread now, hopefully this will be fixed shortly!

Thanks for confirming. I'll give affinity another try later when this has been rectified, but for now I'll have to stick with Photoshop.

[ianmac65]

Excited to see that V1.7 has been released. The update notes comment about the improvement and scaling/alligning of macros, so I'd like to know if the issue above has been fixed? If so, I can finally dump photoshop!

[walt.farrell]

53 minutes ago, ianmac65 said:

Excited to see that V1.7 has been released. The update notes comment about the improvement and scaling/alligning of macros, so I'd like to know if the issue above has been fixed? If so, I can finally dump photoshop!

1.7 provides scaling and alignment options for macros, which may resolve your issue. But to know for sure you should probably try it again, yourself.

[ianmac65]

Thanks Walt.

 

Does anyone know how to get a new trial of Affinity Photo? I just downloaded the new version but it says my trial has expired?

 

[ianmac65]

I just heard back from the developer about getting a new trial. Apparently there is not currently a new version that will reset a previous trial. All they said is that there will be a new trial version in the near future that might reset the trial! Not said with any confidence at all and a bit short sighted for those who have previously trialled and not purchased, but who might if the product did what they wanted.

I guess I'll be sticking with Photoshop, not because I want to but because Affinity does not have any way for me to know if the product will do what I need it to.