How to rotate image in Affinity Designer

[DTPL]

Hi every one. I've opened photo in Affinity Designer and I can't find way to rotate it. If I use rotate tools the artboard doesn't rotate with the photo.

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

First, a matter of teminology: Artboard has a very specific meaning in Designer; it is an alternative to having a Canvas. If you Open a photo in Designer (File > Open) you do not have an Artboard at all. You have a canvas the same size as the photo, but no Artboard.

I think what you're describing is that situation, and the behavior shown below, where I have used the Rotate Clockwise button in the Toolbar:

Affinity Photo includes functions for rotating the document (canvas) or rotating a layer. Designer only includes the function to rotate a layer.

However, an Artboard can come to your rescue, I think. Select the Artboard Tool, change Size to Selection in the Context Toolbar, and click Insert Artboard.

Doing that to the above file gives this:

[DTPL]

That did the trick. Thank you

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome. And thanks for asking; I hadn't thought about how to do that in Designer before.

[R C-R]

4 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

However, an Artboard can come to your rescue, I think.

At first, I could not make this work -- when I rotated the artboard, the photo did not rotate with it. Then the lightbulb came on (dimly, I admit) & I realized I had "Lock Children" enabled on the newly created artboard. Disabling that allowed both to rotate when I rotated the artboard.

[walt.farrell]

11 hours ago, R C-R said:

At first, I could not make this work -- when I rotated the artboard, the photo did not rotate with it. Then the lightbulb came on (dimly, I admit) & I realized I had "Lock Children" enabled on the newly created artboard. Disabling that allowed both to rotate when I rotated the artboard.

I was not subsequently rotating the Artboard. Just getting one created in the proper orientation to match the image

Thanks for mentioning your experience, and the solution.