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Rotation tool improvement

Maurice Colyer

It would be nice if when levelling an image, you could level incrementally using the scroll wheel on your mouse. Currently levelling tends to go in leaps and bounds so you struggle to level an image accurately. Exposure 7 software has this facility - not that I would ever dream of using that software.

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  • SFA

    Maurice,

    This may vary from system to system and you do not mention whether you use Mac or Windows bit I'll offer some information as a Windows user. Also a touchpad user rather than a mouse user but theortically that is just a device substitution in terms of functionality.

    If you have the Rotation and Flip tool open (mostly so that you can see what is going on) and place the cursor in the numerical value field for Rotation the mouse scroll wheel should be active and allow finer adjustment values than the slider at its default setting.  Basically, a 0.01 adjustment step should be possible.

    If using the slider setting as the scroll wheel equivalent press the Alt key (Windows) and the rate of adjustment is refined to about 1/10th of the default amount for the slider movement or the scroll wheel equivalent. 

    A further possibility is a +0.1 and -0.1 adjustment via User created Keyboard Shortcut definitions, should that be of any use to you.

     

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  • Maurice Colyer

    On my Mac you can certainly enter figures with keyboard to adjust amount of rotation but it is still very clumsy compared to the method employed in Exposure.

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  • SFA

    But if you put the cursor in the number field can you use the mouse to scroll the numbers as I can using Windows? Or simple hover over the scroll bar and use the mouse to move the slider?

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  • Maurice Colyer

    No none of those methods work on my Mac

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  • Christian Lacasse

    Nobody has ever beaten Apple Aperture easy rotation tool I still miss it to this day. Big files. Press G, grab any corner with mouse, fine-rotate image to perception. 100 times faster & accurate

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  • SFA

    Maurice,

    "No none of those methods work on my Mac."

    I am surprised. I would expect a different modifier key to be used but so far as I am aware the methods, or some of them, should still work.

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