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How to Rotate Selection and Draw Shapes? - TechnicGeek - 04-23-2018
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.
RE: How to Rotate Selection and Draw Shapes? - Blighty - 04-23-2018
(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
RE: How to Rotate Selection and Draw Shapes? - rich2005 - 04-23-2018
There is a recent post on a similar subject. see: https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Virtual-Drafting-Compass?pid=7556#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.