Small request Rotate layer tool
Verfasst: Sa 13 Jun 2020 00:58
I am scanning in technical drawings at a high resolution. These must be precisely straighened, and to do so I set up some guides along the straight edges.
Then I snap the rotation point to one of the guides. So far, so good.
Next, I need to rotate the layer to straighten it. This is where I run into an issue:
The drawings are large: 1200ppi scanned, up to A3 size. The section I need to zoom into does not allow me to grab one of the corner handles without zooming out. But I need to zoom in up to pixel level to straighten the drawing exactly, often to 1 or 2 pixels.
But this doesn't work: it's grabbing a corner handle, and work imprecisely with trial and error, zooming in and out, retrying, and so on, which is a very ineffective method of working.
Lucky then that PhotoLine has a nice Layer Rotate tool. Or so I thought: the tool will not respect the rotation point that I set for the layers. So it always rotates from the center out, which is not workable.
The Angle setting in the Layer properties isn't very helpful either: dragging those values will not update the rotation in real-time, only when I let go. And besides, dragging jumps between larger values, so it is impossible to work precisely with it without typing numbers.
So now I am a bit stuck to an awkward trial and error approach: zoom out, rotate a bit. Zoom in, check. Zoom out again, rotate once more. Check again zoomed in. Or type very precise values in the rotation field. But I just want to be able to rotate precisely when zoomed in with the rotation point that I defined.
My request: would it be possible to add an option to the layer rotate tool that it will respect the rotation point?
Thanks!
Then I snap the rotation point to one of the guides. So far, so good.
Next, I need to rotate the layer to straighten it. This is where I run into an issue:
The drawings are large: 1200ppi scanned, up to A3 size. The section I need to zoom into does not allow me to grab one of the corner handles without zooming out. But I need to zoom in up to pixel level to straighten the drawing exactly, often to 1 or 2 pixels.
But this doesn't work: it's grabbing a corner handle, and work imprecisely with trial and error, zooming in and out, retrying, and so on, which is a very ineffective method of working.
Lucky then that PhotoLine has a nice Layer Rotate tool. Or so I thought: the tool will not respect the rotation point that I set for the layers. So it always rotates from the center out, which is not workable.
The Angle setting in the Layer properties isn't very helpful either: dragging those values will not update the rotation in real-time, only when I let go. And besides, dragging jumps between larger values, so it is impossible to work precisely with it without typing numbers.
So now I am a bit stuck to an awkward trial and error approach: zoom out, rotate a bit. Zoom in, check. Zoom out again, rotate once more. Check again zoomed in. Or type very precise values in the rotation field. But I just want to be able to rotate precisely when zoomed in with the rotation point that I defined.
My request: would it be possible to add an option to the layer rotate tool that it will respect the rotation point?
Thanks!