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- Image Rotation
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- Image allows an image to be rotated by any angle about any point (even
- a point outside the image). It also allows an image to be rotated by a
- variable angle (producing a spiraled output).
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- The Image Rotation Control window contains 3 writable icons which are
- used to specify the rotation angle (in degrees) and the point about
- which the rotation should take place.
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- To the top right of the window is an icon marked 'Rotate', selecting
- this will make Image perform the stated rotation about the stated
- centre of rotation - Make sure you enter a centre of rotation, as by
- default this is 0,0 (the top left of the image).
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- Selecting the icon marked 'Centre' will automatically make the point
- about which rotation will take place the centre of the image.
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- Alternatively you can click the mouse pointer over the pixel in the
- image you want the centre of rotation to be, the position of this
- point will be entered in a special icon below the icons where the
- centre of rotation is entered. To the right of this special icon is an
- icon marked 'Copy' which when selected copies the position contained
- in the special icon to the icons defining the centre of rotation.
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- Below this there are 4 options which define how the rotation will take
- place. The options are :
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- Slow Process - By default Image performs a quick rotation, but this
- may not be very accurate. By selecting this option
- Image will take more time over the rotation
- producing a more accurate result.
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- Spiral - See below.
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- Preserve Mask - By default any mask currently in an image is
- rotated with the image. Selecting this option
- preserves masked areas as they are, ie. areas
- of the image which would rotate onto these areas
- are thrown away.
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- Fix Mask - This option can be selected as well as, or instead
- of the above. If selected areas masked out will not
- be rotated at all, areas which would have received
- areas that are masked out will be preserved.
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- Spiral Operations
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- By selecting the spiral operation the rotation angle used depends upon
- the distance from the centre of rotation. What you do is specify two
- angles (if you only specify one, then the other angle will be zero),
- the angle of rotation at the centre of rotation and the angle of
- rotation at the furthest point from the centre of rotation.
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- Points between the centre and the furthest point will be rotated by an
- angle between these two values - the result is a spiral.
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- Note: By default the spiral operation uses a lookup table to work out
- rotations (for speed) - selecting the 'Slow Process' option makes each
- rotation be calculated on the fly, producing more accurate results.
- This is over and above the other advantages of using the 'Slow
- Process' option for more accurate output.
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- Quick Operations
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- At the bottom of the window are 5 buttons for performing quick rotations
- about multiples of 90°, and also flipping a picture in both horizontal and
- vertical directions.
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- With the 3 rotation buttons the rotation is not as above, you can not set a
- centre of rotation, and the output dimensions of the image will be rotated
- also (thus a picture of size 100x50 rotated by 90° will produce a 50x100
- picture.
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