How can I hot-key flip the canvas? (Affinity Photo)

[jarombra]

If this is not implemented yet, please put it on the list - digital painters need to flip compositions regularly. I'm very excited for Affinity Photo to become an "industry standard" digital painting tool, but there are a few things it needs if they aren't hiding already within the application:

 

- Color picker HUD (fly-out palette accessible while working on the canvas)

- Customizable hot-key commands

- Live rotate tool

- Canvas flipping hot-keys.

 

If those four things can be added to the software as it is now, there is no reason for digital painters to keep their exorbitant loyalty to Adobe. Thanks forum for your answers.

[markw]

Hello jarombra
Maybe these suggestions will help with some of your quiries for now;

Shift+Option+Command+Left Arrow key will flip the whole document horizontally.
Shift+Option+Command+Right Arrow key will flip it vertically..
Shift+Option+Command+Up Arrow key, Rotate Right 90°
Shift+Option+Command+Down Arrow key, Rotate Left 90°

An item/action that is listed in any apps Menu Bar that doesn't come with a built in shortcut can have a key shortcut added to it in 'System Preferences' under; Hardware > Keyboard > Keboard Shortcuts.

[Lee D]

Hi,

 

Jarombra, take a look at the Photo feature roadmap, these are what our developers are planning to include in future updates. The shortcuts that markw suggests are also worth knowing.

[jarombra]

Hello jarombra

Maybe these suggestions will help with some of your quiries for now;

Shift+Option+Command+Left Arrow key will flip the whole document horizontally.

Shift+Option+Command+Right Arrow key will flip it vertically..

Shift+Option+Command+Up Arrow key, Rotate Right 90°

Shift+Option+Command+Down Arrow key, Rotate Left 90°

 

An item/action that is listed in any apps Menu Bar that doesn't come with a built in shortcut can have a key shortcut added to it in 'System Preferences' under; Hardware > Keyboard > Keboard Shortcuts.

Whatever it's worth, I would like to report that using the listed keyboard commands here do not work on my Early 2011 Macbook Pro running Yosemite. However, if I select the operations from the menu, they work, albeit somewhat erratically. Sometimes it won't flip, and sometimes it will flip over the wrong axis.