Affinity Designer Tutorial #11- Rotation Center Video Lecture | Affinity Photo Tutorials: Basics to Expert - Professional Skills

hey guys ampere bringing you another
affinity designer tutorial and in this
tutorial we will be going over a
rotation point and how you can
effectively use it so I have the picture
of the Aztec bow that you can download
from the affinity view panel when you
first open the program and if you select
so I've selected this group right here
as you can see I can uh I can move it
and what you want to do is say I wanted
to rotate it so that you can do right
now is just rotate it around its center
point and that's uh that's pretty useful
but it's not as effective as what if you
wanted to rotate it around sort of a
corner point or something so what we
have here is if you come up to the top
toolbar and you come right here to so
rotation Center a little a crosshair
icon right here will come up right here
and that's right now the center of
rotation so what you can do is then
select your move tool by hitting V and
you can now move the rotation Center so
now I can rotate it about this corner
say I wanted to rotate it about this
page corner I can do that now what if I
wanted to rotate it about this point
right here I can select there and rotate
it about this so if it's in the
selection box it's going to rotate
around wherever you put it so I'll put
it in the eye it's going to rotate about
the eye but if you take it out of the
selection box it's going to rotate
around the specific point outside the
selection box now what this really works
in conjunction with really well is
snapping so if you have snapping on
which is selected by this magnet up here
you can actually see certain things on
the page you can see certain icon points
if you come up here and select the
snapped key point snapped object
geometry
you can then continue to snap to certain
points right here's like the center of
the image you can rotate this around you
can go to the center of your selection
and rotate about it so what this is
really effective for is if you have to
line up certain things or rotate certain
shapes to fit in a specific area like a
puzzle it's really effective for post
editing things so if you are adding
certain things like say you're adding
something to a photo you're drawing on
top of a photo and you need to quite
match the curve to something you can
rotate it about it to make it a little
bit easier but that's it for the
rotation tool if you liked the video
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