On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 13:41 +0100, peter sikking wrote: > actually next month I am teaching interaction again and will give > my students the exercise ‘precision rotate and precision perspective > one or two tools?’ including of course redesigning the tools. > > I will need some essential scenarios for that, beyond the obvious > photo horizon correction and getting verticals vertical. Actually, getting verticals vertical with a print-sized image isn't possible right now, you can't rotate if you can't see the edges or centre of the canvas. Some other use cases: * skew by 45 degrees, or by a specific measured distance * repeat a rotation but rotate by five degrees more than last time * scale a selection that's too large to fit on the screen I am still using the older transform tools because they work so much better for me *right now*, I can enter numbers, I can see the numbers in the undo history and redo with slightly different numbers, I can drag any part of the corrective preview grid. (I almost always use them in corrective/reverse mode). Once the numbers are all available to be edited on the fly and once the undo history says "rotate 15°" instead of "some general transform or other" the tools will be much more useful, I'll be able to use the numbers when I can't reach the edges of the canvas to rotate. -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
