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This is a question for Gimp users: I'm sure I'm doing something humiliatingly stupid, but I can't get it to rotate pictures. No matter how many tutorials I read or how many times I go through the Gimp User Manual, images just won't rotate. I've tried clicking on the rotate button and going to "Transform --> Arbitrary Rotation" in the Layer menu, then moving the little slider and watching the square outline of the image rotate, and then clicking "Rotate". All of the manuals say that it should rotate when you click "Rotate," but it just doesn't. It does that "wave of motion down your image" thing that indicates that it's doing SOMETHING, but it doesn't rotate. No matter which way I try it - by clicking on the button to get the Rotate dialog box or by going through the menus themselves - it never rotates. I've tried it with grids on and off. I've tried being on a layer that's not the background but still has the image in it. I've tried rotating an image with a lot of blank space around it in case it can't rotate outside of the confines of the canvas edge. Nothing works.
It does, however, rotate 90 degrees or 180 degrees IF I select those from the Image --> Transform menu. But I can't rotate it using the Rotate button.
Oh wise f'list, help me, please! I'm sure it's some ridiculous thing, but I just can't get any image to rotate.
This is a question for Gimp users: I'm sure I'm doing something humiliatingly stupid, but I can't get it to rotate pictures. No matter how many tutorials I read or how many times I go through the Gimp User Manual, images just won't rotate. I've tried clicking on the rotate button and going to "Transform --> Arbitrary Rotation" in the Layer menu, then moving the little slider and watching the square outline of the image rotate, and then clicking "Rotate". All of the manuals say that it should rotate when you click "Rotate," but it just doesn't. It does that "wave of motion down your image" thing that indicates that it's doing SOMETHING, but it doesn't rotate. No matter which way I try it - by clicking on the button to get the Rotate dialog box or by going through the menus themselves - it never rotates. I've tried it with grids on and off. I've tried being on a layer that's not the background but still has the image in it. I've tried rotating an image with a lot of blank space around it in case it can't rotate outside of the confines of the canvas edge. Nothing works.
It does, however, rotate 90 degrees or 180 degrees IF I select those from the Image --> Transform menu. But I can't rotate it using the Rotate button.
Oh wise f'list, help me, please! I'm sure it's some ridiculous thing, but I just can't get any image to rotate.
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