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Thanks all - sorted A lot of the articles on line purporting to show you how to rotate an image in affinity suggested Arrange/Flip. So I was in completely the wrong part of the menu structure. Had I searched for Rotate Document rather than Rotate Image or Rotate Canvas, I'd have been OK.

50% through my free evaluation period and about 10% up the learning curve from photoshop I'm completely stuck on something which I thought might be simple. I do a lot of photo restoration from scanned images. Often they need rotating by 90 or 180 degrees as a first step. Whenever I try to rotate in Photo2 (either grabbing a corner or moving in small or 90 degree increments), the layer moves but not the canvas. So what will start as an oblong image would always end up as square. I can go down a 'bodge' route of first increasing the canvas size, then rotating and finally cropping but that seems a very complex way of doing something that was just Ctrl-L or Ctrl-R on photoshop. Am I missing something as I can't find out anything in the tutorials or online. Any help on the quickest way would be appreciated. Thanks to anyone who responds - it is a great forum.

I've opened a pdf file of a series of records on an A4 page. I'm then using the rectangular marquee tool to select one record and to cut and paste it into a new layer (either CtrlJ or CtrlC/CtrlP), Either way the whole A4 image is always recreated in a new layer. Out of interest, I then saved the one layer image as a jpg, reloaded it and tried again. No problems - I just got the single extracted image in the new layer as I wanted. Is this a bug or a quirk of affinity that I'll need to remember?

Thanks all for the suggestions and comments. It is very easy for me to get rid of the exif data on a pc - it is just a right click of the mouse button whilst in explorer. I was intrigued to know : if there was a way to do it in Affinity - answered perhaps, why it is just these images out of several thousand where the date/time stamp doesn't change when I file/save.. thomaso I think provided the answer insofar as there are over a dozen ways that date/time can be stored and I guess these jpg's store it differently from the others but the contents are displayed in the same column.

This is not purely an Affinity problem, it is something to do with certain jpg files, but perhaps it can be resolved within Affinity The original exif data in terms of date and time doesn't change when I save the files. They are all permanently fixed in 2008 - the year I took the photos. Everything else, such as edit, save, rename, , etc. works OK. All other jpg's are OK Solving it is only important insofar as I have most of my file sort sequences in date descending date order for when it comes to opening a previous file Is there anything I can do in Affinity to resolve it. Thanks in advance

Thanks for the quick reply , From what I remember, there was the option of reloading a recovery file but, whilst the original image loaded, there was no history. I now know what to look out for if it happens again.

I'm running an evaluation copy of Affinity Photo 2 as I'm thinking of returning back to the serif fold as Photoshop is getting too expensive. I'm still learning the 'Affinity way' of doing things. I'd been working on an image for about 30 minutes and then left my desk with the app open. When I returned, Affinity Photo had crashed and was showing a 'not responding' message with the whole screen a light monochrome grey. I was able to close the app from the X in the top right hand corner but when I reopened it, there was no evidence of any work I had done previously. I've tried to find whether there is any facility for regular file saves, or file recovery feature, in case this happened on something important. So far I've drawn a blank. Advice and suggestions would be much appreciated. For info, BitDefender applied a security update while I was away from my pc. This could have caused the crash. Thanks in advance.