Re: [Gimp-developer] 15 lines

[scl <scl gplus gmail com>]

On 25.01.13 at 1:42 PM Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> So I would suggest to revisit straightening horizon use case  and
I agree. Straightening the horizon is a very often and thus important 
use case.

> limiting the amount of lines in transformation tools to a minimum.
I don't think that would solve the problem. To rotate the image 
precisely, you need a line along or very close to the horizon and the 
chance for having such a line increases with the amount of lines.
However, as I said, no matter of the concrete default value there will 
always be some people who prefer another default.

The easiest straightening solution I know of is the Straighten tool in 
Photoshop Elements or the Straighten option in the Crop tool of 
Photoshop CS6: Drag a line along the horizon and you're done.
IMHO only autorotating the image by edge detection algorithms can be 
simpler.

As it seems we're not the first ones with such ideas: 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=526719

Kind regards,

Sven