crop and rotate

[Tommie]

affinity photo v2 up to date using a macbook pro.  I am editing quite a few photos... My crop and rotate tool was working at the beginning and now I am having major problems with both actions... but mainly the rotate ....When I open a photo from my desktop in affinity photo  and click the crop tool a box goes around my photo...50% of the time I can crop using my track pad but 99% of the time now I can not rotate the photo. I click outside the crop box and wait for the curved arrows to appear...I grab the rotate arrow with my curser using my track pad, like I said, and try to turn my photo using my finger but for the most part...nothing happens now.... It is like the tool doesn't work but it was working earlier... help.   

Attaced is the photo I am trying to rotate in the crop box for your reference

 

I did restart my computer but that did not help

 

[NathanC]

Hi @Tommie,

I'm not able to replicate an issue with this on a Monterey MacBook Air, as soon as I use the crop tool and hover the cursor over the outer edges of the images I'm presented with the option to rotate the image relative to the cursor's position, this was done with a trackpad. If possible, if you try this with a mouse does it make any difference? Could you possibly provide a screen recording which demonstrates the issue with rotating? Also, what version of MacOS are you running?

Screen recording guide:

 

Many thanks!

[Tommie]

version of mac OS ventura 13.4.1.    I did figure out a work around to the rotate problem... I  have to zoom out of my image and make it much smaller ...then I have to hover the curser over the outside of the crop box of my image until I see the rotate arrow..then I have to place the rotate arrow way away from the image to make the rotate tool work. It is doable but then I have to zoom back after I am done to see if I did everything correctly....a bit frustrating but at it does work.

[walt.farrell]

As Nathan said, a recording would be useful.

Lacking that, even a full-screen screenshot, showing the complete application window, while you have the Crop Tool selected would be useful. 

Generally, for rotating while using the Crop Tool, one can simply click Rotate in the Context Toolbar, and then draw a line on something that should be horizontal in the image, and the program will do the rotation for you.

[Tommie]

Thank you both for your help...unfortunately I am not great at anything computer related. I did try to do a video recording on my macbook pro but, alas, could not figure it out. I am just glad the rotate tool works in my way. Thank you again.