Good morning!

I am working on a project where I have to bring in about 40 different layers into this project. As I bring them in, I need to put them into position, by rotating them at different angles, while they are still in the scale mode. Apparently, such an action is not allowed. I'm finding one either rotates them before one scales, or one can't rotate after one scales. I could always rotate them before hand, but what good would that do. Due to the fact I don't know what correct angle there supposed to be at until they are shrunk.

My question is, "can a person manipulate an object by rotating it, while in the "scale" mode. And if so "how"? If someone could get back ASAP, I would appreciate it, cause I'm currently working on the project now! Thanks!

I could be wrong but I do not think there is a script or plugin that will let you scale and rotate at the same time in Gimp 2.8 in real time.

You could use the measure tool and record the length/angle between two points for use in the scale/rotate dialogues.

Otherwise you might have to wait for Gimp 2.10 or try out 2.9.5 dev version

For Gimp 2.9.5 Windows try www.partha.com and for linux 'buntu & derivatives there is a ppa. OSX ?

This is diving straight in, there is probably a better way of using the handle transform tool but it is all in one go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N5LdgNLE-o all of 1 min 30 secs

rich:www.gimp-forum.net

On 14/04/17 16:22, Gimpgreenhorn wrote:

Good morning!

I am working on a project where I have to bring in about 40 different layers into this project. As I bring them in, I need to put them into position, by rotating them at different angles, while they are still in the scale mode. Apparently, such an action is not allowed. I'm finding one either rotates them before one scales, or one can't rotate after one scales. I could always rotate them before hand, but what good would that do. Due to the fact I don't know what correct angle there supposed to be at until they are shrunk.

My question is, "can a person manipulate an object by rotating it, while in the "scale" mode. And if so "how"? If someone could get back ASAP, I would appreciate it, cause I'm currently working on the project now! Thanks!

If you are scaling and rotating to align two layers there is my ofn-layer-straightener script, where you indicate two points on the reference layer, two points on the adjusted layer, and then ask the script to move/scale/rotate the adjusted layer so that the two pairs of points overlap.

See https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-tools/files/scripts/

Actually, the "Perspective Transform" tool can also be used for any combination of scale, rotate, and shear, but it only works if you're diligent about what the values shown in the transformation matrix mean and how to manipulate them.

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>
>My question is, "can a person manipulate an object by rotating it,
>while in the "scale" mode. And if so "how"? If someone could get back
>ASAP, I would appreciate it, cause I'm currently working on the
>project now! Thanks!

I could be wrong but I do not think there is a script or plugin that will let
you scale and rotate at the same time in Gimp 2.8 in real time.

You could use the measure tool and record the length/angle between two points
for use in the scale/rotate dialogues.

Otherwise you might have to wait for Gimp 2.10 or try out 2.9.5 dev version

For Gimp 2.9.5 Windows try www.partha.com and for linux 'buntu & derivatives
there is a ppa. OSX ?

This is diving straight in, there is probably a better way of using the handle
transform tool but it is all in one go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N5LdgNLE-o  all of 1 min 30 secs

rich:www.gimp-forum.net

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If you are happy to use GIMP V2.9.x you can use the Unified Transform tool.

Good morning!

I am working on a project where I have to bring in about 40 different layers into this project. As I bring them in, I need to put them into position, by rotating them at different angles, while they are still in the scale mode. Apparently, such an action is not allowed. I'm finding one either rotates them before one scales, or one can't rotate after one scales. I could always rotate them before hand, but what good would that do. Due to the fact I don't know what correct angle there supposed to be at until they are shrunk.

My question is, "can a person manipulate an object by rotating it, while in the "scale" mode. And if so "how"? If someone could get back ASAP, I would appreciate it, cause I'm currently working on the project now! Thanks!