[Gimp-user] IImprovements to unified transform

[BWK <forums gimpusers com>]

> Unified transform is great and has saved me a lot of time with tasks
> that I do.
>
> I work with aerial photographs which can be very large images, like
> 5000 or 10000 pixels a side. When I overlay a historical aerial photo
> on top of a recent one, I need to be able to access a size handle
> (maybe also a skew handle) anywhere on the image, not just in a few
> places along the edges. The alignment has to be very precise, and
> having to zoom out or scroll to find a handle I can drag to resize the
> preview can mean I can't see as precisely or in the right place.
>
> We need something like a modifier key we press to make the diamond and
> square appear right where the mouse is and we can drag right there
> instead of the handles that are on the edges. It would have the same
> impact as dragging one of the edge handles in the same direction.
>
> TIA

I guess likewise also need a way of rotating without having to drag outside the
edge. That would need a rotator modifier key or tool.

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