musicfed Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 Hello I’d like to know if someone can tell me how to rotate a photo but within the constraint of the original canvas? in other words I’m trying to replicate what the iPhone does in the photo rotate/align tool, where you want to simply make straight a photo that’s slightly tilted, sometimes only by a few degrees, but keeping the original ratio in the background thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 If you want to keep the photo the same size, you’ll need to rasterize it after rotation and then do some careful cloning or inpainting to fill in the blank triangles around the edges. If you’re happy to enlarge it and lose some of the original content, you can simply drag the corners outwards with the Move Tool: when you export the result, anything beyond the edges of the canvas will be cropped away automatically. musicfed 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicfed Posted May 10, 2019 Author Share Posted May 10, 2019 5 hours ago, Alfred said: If you want to keep the photo the same size, you’ll need to rasterize it after rotation and then do some careful cloning or inpainting to fill in the blank triangles around the edges. If you’re happy to enlarge it and lose some of the original content, you can simply drag the corners outwards with the Move Tool: when you export the result, anything beyond the edges of the canvas will be cropped away automatically. Thanks. It does sound a lot of work whereas said feature on iOS photos does rotate and crop in one go.. quite neat. Anyway I think the best way I found is to use the rotate command under develop persona and then crop if needed. More laborious but I get there Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Mudditt Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 (edited) Use the crop tool, select the straighten option on the context toolbar at the bottom, draw a straight line which will rotate the photo as Alfred says with triangles at the edges. Now, that’s where the inpaintcrop2 macro that Jim Welsh created comes in to do all the hard work of fixing the edges. See this post for the macros. 6A78A672-FC2C-4524-9DD7-C073191D5853.MP4 Edited May 11, 2019 by Paul Mudditt Example of use added Alfred 1 Quote My dad always told me, a bad workman always blames their tools…. Just waiting for Ronny Pickering….. Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.4 on macOS Sonoma 14 on M1 Mac Mini 16GB 1TB Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.4 on Windows 10 Pro. Deceased Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.4 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS 17.4 https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityForiPad https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/ The hardest link to find https://affinity.help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicfed Posted May 11, 2019 Author Share Posted May 11, 2019 4 hours ago, Paul Mudditt said: Use the crop tool, select the straighten option on the context toolbar at the bottom, draw a straight line which will rotate the photo as Alfred says with triangles at the edges. Now, that’s where the inpaintcrop2 macro that Jim Welsh created comes in to do all the hard work of fixing the edges. See this post for the macros. Thanks a lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicfed Posted May 13, 2019 Author Share Posted May 13, 2019 I never realised I could draw a line to align and straighten the photo. interestingly the iphone photo app does all of this in one go. they seem to have implemented a macro that aligns to the main lines visibile and then straightens and crops accordingly. impressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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