Rotate Canvas?

[salged]

Hello, Im a transportation design student from germany and i love your work so far. Its much more fluid and Mac-like than Photoshop. My first and biggest question so far came up when i started to render a sketch in affinity photo (much like i did with photoshop in the past). I really need to be able to quickly rotate the canvas (in photoshop there is a simple solution - you press and hold "r" and rotate the screen with the cursor (or graphic tablet) and release it to switch back to brush (or anything other i used before). 

Would love to see an implementation like this.

 

Thanks for your awesome work so far!

[MEB]

Hello salged,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

This feature was already requested by other users too. It is being worked on and should be available later.

[salged]

Awesome! 

 

there are also some more very important tools missing (or i just can't find them?)

 

1. something like puppet warp (you can warp but fix points in the image that should stay the same)

2. transform selection (important!)

3. stroke selection (apply a stroke on the selected area (eg. ellipses)

4. fill selection

5. switch through the tools (and the submenues) with shift pressed (when i want to select the elliptical selection tool i press shift + m)

6. very important: Change brush size and hardness by shortcut alt + dragging the cursor up/down/left/right

7. something that photoshop won't do right on mac: if you got an layer selected and you want to change the blending modes, on windows (ps) you can simply select the tool on the top of the layer window and circle through different modes by the arrow keys. you can't do that on the mac version and neither in affinity photo... would be awesome!

 

 

thanks!

[MEB]

Hi salged,

 

1) Currently there's no puppet warping tool. This was already requested but i don't know when or if it will be available at this point.

 

2) To transform a selection, enter in Quick Mask mode (press Q or activate it on the persona toolbar - the white square with an empty circle icon), change to the Move tool and use the bounding box handles (or the Transform panel on the bottom right of the interface) to edit/transform the selection.

 

3) Not available yet. Later you should be able to convert a selection to a vector path and stroke it like any other vector object. Not sure if we will provide a way to stroke a selection directly.

 

4) With an active selection, go to menu Layer ▹ New Fill Layer.

 

5) You can cycle trough the tools pressing the respective shortcut more than once.

 

6) you can already change the size and hardness of a brush pressing ⌃(ctrl) + ⌥ (option/alt) simultaneously and dragging the mouse. Drag horizontally to change the size, and vertically to change the hardness.