Just bought Affinity Photo and some questions

[ChrisP]

I just cancelled my CC subscription this morning and bought AP. Really enjoying it so far and a lot of the same shortcuts has made it very nice. Couple of questions though:

 

1. When I import an image to work on, it is always locked. Is there a way to import it and have it be unlocked?

 

2. After I unlock the image to rotate it, I am using the on-screem handle. It works fine except when I manipulate the handle and pause at all, the image starts to move down. Then I have to press Cmd+0 to center it again. Has anyone experienced this "moving down" behavior when the rotation handle is held (after manipulation)?

 

Thanks in advance

[toltec]

1 Go to Edit > Preferences > User Interface and untick this

 

 

2. Doesn't happen on my PC.

 

 

[carl123]

As regards number 2

If when rotating a top handle the handle or the rotation cursor reaches near the top of the screen the image will be pushed down so that the node and/or the rotation cursor will still remain visible on the screen.  The reverse happens when rotating a bottom node whereupon the image will move up.  I would suggest that this is by design.

[ChrisP]

Thank you both for the replies. 

 

toltec - yes that did it. I think I need to explore the preferences more. Thanks again.

 

carl123 - I didn't think of that and you are right. When I zoom out and the image isn't "Zoom to fit" it does not move at all. A bit annoying at first but it now makes total sense. Thanks again.