Jaffa Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 For whatever reason I am not getting Affinity Photo in Windows to straighten. I look to see what I am doing wrong, but seems it is the program at this time. I have a photo and want to straighten. I choose the crop tool and then in the bar up top choose "Straighten". Sure enough the icon of the levelling device appears. Next, I drag to the right to identify the part I believe is straight. However I do not get the level line shown in the videos. The 'tool' chooses to identify a crop area, which invariably, as I am trying to identify a straight line to it, ends in a very long, very slim crop. Have tried this 20/30 times and always get the same result. I have worked with Photoshop Elements and then Affinity Photo, in total, for about 7 1/2 to 8 years - so am no novice. Help soon please!! Quote Jafa - Just Another Fantastic Aucklander (Jim) Windows 11 Affinity Photo 2.1 Lightroom 6 Nik Collection and Topaz Denoise AI Intel Core i7 9700K @ 3.60GHz 32 °C Coffee Lake 14nm Technology Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianrb Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 I never use "straighten" -- select crop tool > put cursor outside the crop lines to get the 90c arrow > turn to suit You likely know Ctrl + " to open the grid can also us the square marquee tool + mask in a similar way You may need to flatten after straightening Feel I'm showing you how to suck eggs but others might need to know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 I use a similar method to that of @ianrb. However, I first use the crop tool to make a narrow rectangle that encloses the line I want to straighten. I then rotate as @ianrb does, and then I expand the crop region to suit. John ianrb 1 Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 Hi Jaffa, maybe a short video showing what happens. Personally I have tried everything I can to "not" show the level line but the damn thing keeps showing lol! If you don't have a lot of customisation in Affinity Photo maybe go to the Miscellaneous tab in Preferences and reset Reset Default User Defaults. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Ventura 13.6, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 Add a signature like this so system and app info always seen. Tagging is the gift that keeps on giving. Please consider adding tags to your post, not only does it help searching later on but it helps us, to give focused replies and is greatly appreciated by those that do reply, remember Affinity is for life not just Christmas. (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 2 hours ago, firstdefence said: Personally I have tried everything I can to "not" show the level line but the damn thing keeps showing lol! It works perfectly for me as well, but I am on a Mac so I don't know what the problem might be in Windows. Not that it helps the OP, but I just noticed that on Macs, holding down the CMD key while the Crop tool is active enables the straighten mode, just like clicking on the context toolbar does. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V23.0 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HVDB Photography Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 1 hour ago, R C-R said: holding down the CMD key while the Crop tool is active enables the straighten mode In windows too Quote Affinity Photo 2.3.1 Laptop MSI Prestige PS42 Windows 11 Home 23H2 (Build 22631.3007) - Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz 2.00 GHz - RAM 16,0 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 Just now, HVDB Photography said: In windows too Except I am guessing it is not the CMD key but instead the CTRL one? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V23.0 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HVDB Photography Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 34 minutes ago, R C-R said: Except I am guessing it is not the CMD key but instead the CTRL one? Indeed Jaffa 1 Quote Affinity Photo 2.3.1 Laptop MSI Prestige PS42 Windows 11 Home 23H2 (Build 22631.3007) - Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz 2.00 GHz - RAM 16,0 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HVDB Photography Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 Here's a quick video that visualize the three methods straighten720.mp4 R C-R, Jaffa and John Rostron 3 Quote Affinity Photo 2.3.1 Laptop MSI Prestige PS42 Windows 11 Home 23H2 (Build 22631.3007) - Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz 2.00 GHz - RAM 16,0 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaffa Posted January 1, 2019 Author Share Posted January 1, 2019 On 12/31/2018 at 3:23 AM, HVDB Photography said: Indeed Many thanks HVDB, that works great! Also, your video is very helpful. I appreciate all those others who also took the time out to respond! Quote Jafa - Just Another Fantastic Aucklander (Jim) Windows 11 Affinity Photo 2.1 Lightroom 6 Nik Collection and Topaz Denoise AI Intel Core i7 9700K @ 3.60GHz 32 °C Coffee Lake 14nm Technology Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelHoskins Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 When I attempt to 'Straighten' , in Photo, I position the mouse over a point, depress the (left) mouse key and the 'level' line disappears and becomes a crop rectangle. If I hold the 'Ctrl" key while doing this the photo is leveled! Is this correct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsampson45 Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 When I try to export the straightened image, it goes wonky again (v 2.3 on Windows 10). Affinity Photo is full of surprises! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsampson45 Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 I found the answer - one must press the Return key after the manoeuvres shown in the video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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