Re: [Gimp-developer] 15 lines

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 7:02 PM, scl wrote:

>> 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....

There are tons of use cases when you don't need to rotate precisely,
and the grid gets in the way.

> 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.

This is how several open source tools work (e.g. darktable and Rawstudio).

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org