Re: [Gimp-user] Restricting tool movement along a single axis

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On 10/29/2013 03:15 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 11:32 +0100, alemelo wrote:
> > Hello,
> > as I write in the subject: is there a way to restrict tool movement along a
> > single (horizontal or vertical) axis?
> Yes, with the control key, but not with the perspective tool, which is
> pretty hard to use in that regard. There's a new perspective tool in the
> 2.9/2.10 development branch but for me it was pretty useless when I last
> tried it (I work with images bigger than the screen, and in
> reverse/corrective mode) and no more accurate. But it's more likely to
> be improved than the old one.
Another problem with the perspective tool is how it behaves with guides. 
When you click on a corner handle and drag it,  what snaps to guides is 
not the center of the handle, but the point of the handle where you 
clicked down. This makes it hard to align the handles.