On Wed, 2016-10-26 at 14:07 +0200, alin33 wrote: > Hello I pasted into a selection an image,so now its floating > selection.
E.g. (1) copy something onto the clipboard in GIMP or elsewhere (2) make a selection in GIMP (3) use GIMP's edit->paste into > I want to > rotate not the selection but to rotate the image that I have pasted > into the > selection,but not move the selection at all. E.g. press R or use tools/transform tools/rotate or choose the Rotate tool from the toolbox and click on the selection > I see that I can move the pasted > image inside the selection with the move tool,but can't rotate it > without moving > the selection The selection (as shown by the marching ants) doesn't move when i use the rotate tool. But when you press OK to do the rotate, the marching ants are indeed rotated. One way I found to stop them rotating: (1) copy (2) select (3) select->save to channel (4) go to the layers dialogue and reselect the layer you're working on (5) edit->paste inside (6) rotate (7) in layers, click the new layer button to make the floating selection into a layer (8) in the channels dialogue, right-click the saved selection and use Channel to Selection (9) in the layers dialogue reselect the layer you're working on. Almost any time you interact with the Channels in GIMP you need to go back and reselect the current layer or you end up drawing only on the saved channel. It's also possible to paste as a new layer directly, but this will paste it in the top left of your image, not inside the selection. You can work around that by including the four corners of the image in the selection (actually just the top left is enough) using shift and the rectangle or noose tool, but it's a pain. So I think the workflow I've suggested may be easiest. Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin <[email protected]> Words and Pictures From Old Books - http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: [email protected] List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
