Hi.
I'm new using Photo paint. I'm making an illustration and wanted to rotate it while I'm drawing, but I can't find a tool to do that. Photoshop and Sketch book have that kind of tools. I was wondering if Photo paint has it as well.
Thank you.
Oswaldol
Ok there are two things rotating the document or rotating an object (layer) on the document.
Document, image menu, rotate, 90 clockwise, 90 counterclockwise, 190 or custom. An object, select, select again and use the handles to rotate the object (layer) or use the rotate icon on the property bar to activate the handles.
If you have a transparent background and rotate the object on top, then rotate the document the object also rotates with the document.
Hi David!I'm pretty sure that's not what Oswaldol meant.Some drawing applications can rotate their canvas without having to resample the image. This 'option' simply rotates the display instead of having to rotate physically your monitor or drawing tablet. The solution you describe rotates the drawing, causing it to resample itself everytime thus gradually degrading the drawing's rendering.So, no. Corel PhotoPAINT cannot do that, unless someone else knows a trick for that.
I feel for software publishers right now. So many tasks that we used to perform required high end applications, however the display only use of art coupled with the lower quality demands of web images and art choke the client base of applications that offer high end performance for display and print.
An example just yesterday, playing with an image posted on the web of a person with severe acne. One person couldn't even see the changes side by side. Some people invest zero in qualify.
I get you.Yes, the demand is more and more related to the web and social media. It's the cheapest and outstandingly the most effective marketing tool that exists, today! TV doesn't cut it, radio, newspapers, etc... It's even more effective than large format printing! People all have their eyes glued to their cell phones! They hardly raise their heads for a breath of fresh air!The quality of the results have nothing to do with the software. Some extraordinary artists make outstanding art with low budget software. All in all, it mostly has to do with the quality of the artist / designer and his know how.From another point of view, almost every designer I know of in my surrounding consider even CorelDRAW to be a LOW END program! Many of them don't understand how I can come up with my art with such a program. They keep saying if I learned other programs (being Adobe) they mention that I'd be surprised how further I could go... And I'm jealously noticing all the exiting tools other programs come up with, I'm starting to believe them more and more.Honestly, I really think CorelDRAW has to keep up the pace. They're losing the lead they used to have a long time ago.
I hear you! Corel does state of the art work for output to print and manufacturing. However that's a mature and in some cases a shrinking base. In terms of programming it's a more difficult task.
Today most work is display viewed, (much easier) programming. Unfortunately in my State of Pennsylvania, wages for designers creating this work are poverty level. Living in Philadelphia or Pittsburgh and making $25 an hour you'll need food stamps or live at home with your parents for life.
I was on the Affinity Designer site for quite a while, some work is great, certainly not system or programming intensive but the average person posting is doing average display work. Many post concerning problem files were what I consider nothing CorelDRAW work, 4'×6' menu prints for behind the counter, like most art today a bit over designed, hard to read, lots of text and drop shadows and other transparencies. Whether it be Mac or Windows Affinity Designer just does not have what it takes for output work as it becomes even basic or a bit more complicated inkjet sign work. It is something you don't want to mention on the site. However Designer is great at display work.
I'm also on the PaintShop Pro and Affinity Photo sites, I just can't be less than honest, AWFUL! Flashes of brilliance 99.9% trash on both sites. However because Photo-PAINT does not modernize I'm forced to have these 2 applications for the combined 7 features they offer.
Currently I'm dabbling with an image posted by a user on the Affinity site, 99.999% thinking .0001% image manipulation. One person gets it and has interesting conversations. An image of a person with acne scars and active acne and a lousy image to boot. It's not an image that AI can do but that's all the current user wants. Give me a button that makes me look good.
Affinity has a very active and vibrant forum which has some highly knowledgeable participants. Affinity officials also put in a lot of effort to respond to challenges being faced by their user base. The feedback is almost in real time.
You can check out their forum: forum.affinity.serif.com/
I did and do still use the photo forum. Affinity unfortunately is just not ready for prime time, Photo as a support application has uses.