Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate?

["Erik P. Olsen" <epodata gmail com>]

On 05/02/12 15:18, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer wrote:
> "Erik P. Olsen"<epodata gmail com>  writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > Thanks for this detailed description. Yes, I've rotated the layer
> > only, so now at least I know how to rotate correctly. But please
> > enlighten me why would you want to rotate a layer and not the entire
> > image?
>
> Because sometimes you have several layers (that's sort of the point of
> layers, otherwise the concept of layers would be useless). Just to give
> a simple example: you open an image of a mountain landscape as a
> background layer, then add an image of a plane as another layer on top
> of that. But the plane is flying from left to right, which is boring, so
> you rotate it (the layer) so it's flying straight up. If you had rotated
> the entire image, the mountains would be sideways.

Thanks a lot for the information. Makes sense but I am not yet this experienced. 
At least I now know how to use it if the need arises.

--
Erik