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I am drawing a Polygon object and I'd like to be able to rotate the Polygon x degrees. How can I do this?
Thanks!
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by: brundoPosted on 2009-01-21 at 13:48:21ID: 23434406
You can rotate layer or selection (third option is not interesting for you now).
So:
- Select your polygon.
- Click on Rotate tool.
- Check if Direction is set to normal (for your case), Interpolation to Cubic.
- Rotate your selection by dragging.
- Click on Rotate button in the rotate dialog box.
- Choose another tool (otherwise another click on the picture shows Rotate dialog box again).
More about rotation you can read in original documentation on http://docs.gimp.org/en/giFor best results when I need more "same" drawings which stays under various angles I often work in the first phase with bigger picture, rotate it (eventually do other things) and scale down in the last step. But this is not necessary...