Rotate Document by 90°

[rfj10101]

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.

 

 

 

[thomaso]

16 minutes ago, rfj10101 said:

50% through my free evaluation period and about 10% up the learning curve

It maybe worth to go through all menu entries … to familiarize the app with you 😉

… and to see where you got or where you could want to create a keyboard shortcut.

[Old Bruce]

16 minutes ago, rfj10101 said:

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.

Look under Document > Rotate 90 Clockwise or Document Rotate 90 Anticlockwise. You can set the Keyboard shortcuts to something other than the Command + Option + Shift + Up Arrow. This will rotate the Document and not the layer on its lonesome.

[rfj10101]

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.