Affinity Photo symmetry tool angle snapping?

[keematt]

I'm wondering if there's a feature to snap the symmetry tool on angles. I want to achieve a very symmetrical look, but I can't get it perfectly straight, always just a few millimeters off from perfect symmetry in the middle.

Specifically, a feature where you can turn it matching a specific angle.

[firstdefence]

If you are using the Brush or Pixel tool, control over the lineation of both tools are very limited. You can use the Shift key to constrain the brush stroke to horizontal or vertical movement but it's buggy at best and will sometimes draw lines in other places.

The only option for accurate angle control would be the Pen tool, this draws vector curves but doesn't have any automated symmetry properties. You can create curves with the Pen tool and use them as guides for symmetry drawing but it takes a bit of getting used to.

 

[v_kyr]

There are also some ADe mirror templates (Symbol usage based - Using Symbols) which you can try out (mostly) for x/y-axes based mirror drawing ...

• Mirror template
• Multiple sided templates
• ... etc.

... beside some YouTube videos about mirror based drawing ...

• ADe - Symmetry and the Symbol tool
• ADe - Symmetry and mirror painting
• APh - Symmetry shapes in APh
• etc.

... maybe you can get the one or other idea from those for angle based arranged snapping too.