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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).
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.
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).
Selecting the icon marked 'Centre' will automatically make the point
about which rotation will take place the centre of the image.
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.
Below this there are 4 options which define how the rotation will take
place. The options are :
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.
Spiral - See below.
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.
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.
Spiral Operations
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.
Points between the centre and the furthest point will be rotated by an
angle between these two values - the result is a spiral.
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.
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.
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.