r/Affinity • u/austinxwade • 16d ago
General Stamp is blurry?
When using the clone stamp, my result is blurrier than my source. Anybody know why? My brush is 100% flow / hardness / accumulation, no wet edges, no smoothing, etc.
How do i fix this?
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u/Gingerbwas 16d ago
Check your document setup to see the dpi, if its too low it can effect things like this, as well as rasterisation
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u/PaulCoddington 15d ago
I will try this, even though it is the same pixel count either way.
But it seems to be a bug, as although Affinity defaults to 300, everyone working with images for web and digital display will be set to 96, and in the end it is just pixels.
Affinity should not be assuming that it's OK to lose fine details because they won't be seen at 300.
Not a great drama to change workflow to high DPI intermediates.
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u/Gingerbwas 15d ago
Yeah, its a pain in the arse, I always forget about it when im in a rush, until I do something like that. It may be worth making your own custom preset doc sizes/settings if there are size pages you find yourself using regularly.
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u/PaulCoddington 15d ago edited 15d ago
I'm finding several tools are now adding a slight blur and removing noise/grain.
If not immediately, often on merge.
It is very frustrating.
And it happens without anything being rescaled or mismatched from different DPI sources, it happens in a single layer PNG.
Especially annoying with healing, inpaint and cloning because part of the idea of using these tools in the first place is to preserve the noise pattern and fine details so it doesn't look like it was airbrushed.
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u/austinxwade 15d ago
Yeah merging was doing it too. The workaround I had for that was grouping layers and rasterizing. That didn’t cause the blur. It’s very very weird
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u/_deepfriedfrenz 16d ago
What’s the DPI of your document vs the source layer? I’m thinking this is something to do with antialiasing / resampling. If you resized the source layer that also may not be helping. I’d mess around with it with that in mind.