Re: [Gimp-user] rotate pasted image

["Liam R. E. Quin" <liam holoweb net>]

On Wed, 2016-10-26 at 14:07 +0200, alin33 wrote:
> Hello I pasted into a selection an image,so now its floating
> selection.

E.g.
(1) copy something onto the clipboard in GIMP or elsewhere
(2) make a selection in GIMP
(3) use GIMP's edit->paste into


> I want to
> rotate not the selection but to rotate the image that I have pasted
> into the
> selection,but not move the selection at all.

E.g. press R or use tools/transform tools/rotate or choose the Rotate
tool from the toolbox and click on the selection

> I see that I can move the pasted
> image inside the selection with the move tool,but can't rotate it
> without moving
> the selection 

The selection (as shown by the marching ants) doesn't move when i use
the rotate tool. But when you press OK to do the rotate, the marching
ants are indeed rotated.

One way I found to stop them rotating:

(1) copy
(2) select
(3) select->save to channel
(4) go to the layers dialogue and reselect the layer you're working on
(5) edit->paste inside
(6) rotate
(7) in layers, click the new layer button to make the floating
selection into a layer
(8) in the channels dialogue, right-click the saved selection and use
Channel to Selection
(9) in the layers dialogue reselect the layer you're working on.

Almost any time you interact with the Channels in GIMP you need to go
back and reselect the current layer or you end up drawing only on the
saved channel.

It's also possible to paste as a new layer directly, but this will
paste it in the top left of your image, not inside the selection. You
can work around that by including the four corners of the image in the
selection (actually just the top left is enough) using shift and the
rectangle or noose tool, but it's a pain. So I think the workflow I've
suggested may be easiest.

Liam

-- 
Liam R. E. Quin <liam holoweb net>

Words and Pictures From Old Books - http://www.fromoldbooks.org/