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Canvas rotation is a must for sketching, illustrating and editing photos with a pen display or graphics tablet. Traditionally when drawing on paper, the paper is usually rotated, many people do it all the time. On the computer you would rotate the canvas instead.

@bentraje Unfortunately no, I've been looking for a canvas rotation tool for so long, there are many people in this forum who want a simple canvas rotation like in Photoshop, but nothing happened. My workaround is to use the shortcut for left and right rotation. For example A and Y.

Yes, you are right, I am turning the view, but on purpose. For ergonomic reasons it is recommended to rotate the canvas inside the view tool. You would never rotate all the layers you are working on. I would just like to say that any other software with canvas rotation and brush size adjustment tool (Sketchbook, Photoshop, Krita...) is always aligned with the edge of the window and not with the edge of the canvas.

I found a strange and confusing behavior of the brush size tool. The movement of the mouse, for example to resize the brush (right and left) is not based on the window, but on the rotation of the canvas. It is especially confusing when the canvas is rotated by 180 degrees🙃. The rotation of the canvas is good for drawing, but the tool for resizing the brush is not suitable for rotating the canvas.

After restarting affinity photo, the automatic scrolling within the "Layer" tab is always enabled. Even if I deactivate it.

I already did the workaround by mapping the shortcut for left and right rotation to my keyboard, it is working, but not as convenient, as in other programs. By the way thx for your support, and for this amazing program!👍

thanks for your response. I'm looking for something like this, would be cool if it found its way into affinity photo.

Dear Serif, will it ever be possible to rotate the canvas, as in the ipad version? In the ipad version it is possible, why not in Windows?