Simple zoomed crop does not scroll/pan during crop

[KlingonTarg]

In an effort to ween myself off of Photoshop knowing that my CS3 Extended license will likely stop working at some point in the next decade since CS3's been kind of buggy since Windows Vista, I've decided to give Affinity Photo a shot (I vehemently refuse to pay for Creative Cloud because I run Photoshop very infrequently and newer versions of Photoshop are really a non-starter in my preferred workflow).  When I do the rare bit of image work, I mostly do vector art and screenshot image cropping.  I was recently impressed with Affinity Photo's SVG support.  I was able to import a few SVGs as vectors, readily make adjustments, and export as PNG.  Took a little bit to get used to the tools, but the vector toolset is on par with Photoshop and superior to Inkscape (and, IMO, Illustrator).  Will definitely use again for future vector-oriented projects (e.g. icon design).

So today I attempted to use Affinity Photo for the first time to crop an image.  In short:  Nope.  When cropping, I need pixel-perfect image crops of window screenshots from the clipboard (e.g. application screenshots for documentation) and Affinity is not particularly ready for that standard workflow out-of-the-box - especially the cropping part of image cropping.  It took me but a moment to realize that the New Document dialog, which the startup splash screen encourages the user to use on startup, does not pay attention to anything on the clipboard.  I had to cancel that dialog and locate the File -> New Document From Clipboard option to get the dialog to show the correct dimensions.  It pasted the image for me too, which was fine.  I zoomed in to 300%, which is the sweet spot for me for cropping in Photoshop and Paint.NET.  I then activated the crop tool and attempted to draw a simple crop rectangle from the upper left corner to the lower right corner and...there's no scroll/pan support?  I went back to Photoshop and had the crop done in under a minute.

Panning the image in Affinity Photo for Windows also has very large flicker effects from double repaint/redraw operations plus some lag on a 6th Gen Intel Core i7 with a decent NVidia GPU.  Good morning Windows GDI.

[stokerg]

Hi KlingonTarg and Welcome to the Forums,

21 hours ago, KlingonTarg said:

I then activated the crop tool and attempted to draw a simple crop rectangle from the upper left corner to the lower right corner and...there's no scroll/pan support?

Thats correct, you'd have to manually pan which likely wouldn't be ideal when zoomed in.  Would make for a good feature request.

 

21 hours ago, KlingonTarg said:

Panning the image in Affinity Photo for Windows also has very large flicker effects from double repaint/redraw operations plus some lag on a 6th Gen Intel Core i7 with a decent NVidia GPU

Not seeing that here but i've likely not got the same model GPU as yourself.  Under Edit>Settings>Performance what are the setting on this screen?

[KlingonTarg]

40 minutes ago, stokerg said:

Not seeing that here but i've likely not got the same model GPU as yourself.  Under Edit>Settings>Performance what are the setting on this screen?

Underlying NVidia driver version is 419.35 (most likely not the latest).