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I WANT TO BE ABLE TO USE RULERS IN DEVELOP PERSONA!


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I know this has already ben asked (in 2015) but we are now in 2019 and it's still not been done.

I need to use the rulers in Develop Persona!

Is not that hard, come on. How can I be precise with the lens correction tool without been able to use rulers?!

PLEASE FIX THIS!

Thank you.

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The ruler works for me in the Develop Persona (View > Show Ruler) on both 1.6.5.123 and in the 1.7 beta:

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What Photo release and OS are you using?

-- Walt
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1 hour ago, Fixx said:

...but how these help in lens correction routines?

Who are you asking? Me (or @MEB) or @Matteo Borghi?

I don't know how they'd be useful, but he's the one who asked for them. We're merely pointing out that they're available.

-- Walt
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    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
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22 hours ago, Matteo Borghi said:

I need to use the rulers in Develop Persona!

You have already been answered.

 

Are You Really Not Confusing Rulers and Guides?

https://affinity.help/photo/English.lproj/pages/DesignAids/rulers.html

https://affinity.help/photo/English.lproj/pages/DesignAids/guides.html

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9 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Who are you asking?

Mainly OP but also anybody who can answer.

I am not asking this for academic interest but I also do a lot of lens correction work, with images coming from all kinds of sources. I use all kinds of makeshift "rulers" (that is "guides", actually) to see if lines are curved or not upright. Like dragging image to window edge to use is as reference line, or dragging a panel to a long shape and placing it above a line in image. Very kludgey work. Grid should help this but I find it clumsy: gridlines are not in the right places and grid appearance hinders visibility.

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52 minutes ago, Matteo Borghi said:

I know I can use the grid, but I would prefer to be able to move the guides in the correct place.

In the Develop Persona you have to use the Guides Manager to set or move Guides.

-- Walt
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PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
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10 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

In the Develop Persona you have to use the Guides Manager to set or move Guides.

Could you please me tell me how? I can't find anything online and on the software I just find "Guides", but I can't move them because there isn't the Move Tool in Develop Persona.

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2 hours ago, Matteo Borghi said:

Could you please me tell me how? I can't find anything online and on the software I just find "Guides", but I can't move them because there isn't the Move Tool in Develop Persona.

View > Guides Manager

That will give you a dialog that looks like this:

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The icons I've marked will give you a new horizontal or vertical guide, each centered on your image by default:

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You can add more (they always start out centered), and you can click on the field for a guide and adjust it by typing a new location. It's not as handy as being able to drag them, but it can be done. The rulers can help you with the positioning.

 

 

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1

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1 minute ago, MEB said:

The Guides Manager is not available on Mac (Develop Persona). Only on Windows. This is a known issue that's already logged to be looked at.

Thanks.

Also, there's a bug on Windows when adding Guides in the Develop Persona while processing a raw image. The image appearance changes, but it can be corrected by choosing a different tool. I don't know if that's been reported before, so I created a report:

 

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1

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