How to Rotate Selection and Draw Shapes?

[TechnicGeek]

Hello,

2 questions here.

How to rotate selection, be it custom or rectangle or circular?

How to easily draw ready shapes, like rectangle and circle? I haven't found them in the toolbox.

Thanks.

[Blighty]

(04-23-2018, 06:12 AM)TechnicGeek Wrote: How to rotate selection, be it custom or rectangle or circular?

Select the Rotate Tool. Then, in the Tool Options, set the Mode to Selection (see attached)

Quote:How to easily draw ready shapes, like rectangle and circle? I haven't found them in the toolbox.

I suspect you are thinking in vector graphics terms (eg Inkscape). It has rectangle and circle objects.
For a bitmap editor like Gimp, it is a little different.
Create a selection, then Edit > Stroke Selection
(or better, create a path and Edit > Stroke Path

[rich2005]

There is a recent post on a similar subject. see: https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Virtua...56#pid7556

Other than using the rectangular/elliptical select tool, then fill/stroke, these often come via a path.

Rotating a path - same as a selection except the mode is the third one in Blighty's screen shot (the one under the head of the arrow)

Once filled/stroked rotating involves moving the pixels around so for quality often better to erase, edit, fill again so use plenty of layers and keep separate.