Rotating an image in Painter

[Tony Karp]

This is for photographs.

Up til now, I've been using a film camera, so rotating a vertical
picture was done in the scanner.

Now I'm playing with a digital camera and I want to rotate the image 90
degrees in painter.

Most other programs do this easily, but painter turns the image into a
floater and rotates the image, but not the canvas, which crops the image
and leaves part of the canvas blank.

Is there a way around this?

Tony Karp, TLC Systems Corp tk...@tlc-systems.com

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[KSperling]

After you rotate, Edit: Copy then Edit: Paste into New Image.

Karen Sperling
Editor/Publisher
Artistry Painter Tutorial CD's
http://www.artistrymag.com

<<This is for photographs.

Up til now, I've been using a film camera, so rotating a vertical
picture was done in the scanner.

Now I'm playing with a digital camera and I want to rotate the image 90
degrees in painter.

Most other programs do this easily, but painter turns the image into a
floater and rotates the image, but not the canvas, which crops the image
and leaves part of the canvas blank.

Is there a way around this?

Tony Karp, TLC Systems Corp tk...@tlc-systems.com

Visit our web sites:

Techno-Impressionist Museum: <A
HREF="http://www.techno-impressionist.com">http://www.techno-impressionist
.com</A>
TLC Systems: <A
HREF="http://www.tlc-systems.com">http://www.tlc-systems.com</A>

>>

[Jinny Brown]

Tony,

Are you saying that the Rotate command crops off painted portions of the
image?

In Painter, the Canvas is cemented to the floor, so to speak. It can't
be lifted, moved, rotated.

I've never seen a rotated image taken from the entire Canvas become
smaller than the Canvas dimensions when it's rotated. The only scenario
I can think of where the rotated Layer would be smaller than the Canvas
is when a selection of only part of what's on the the Canvas is rotated.

To rotate the entire contents of the Canvas, Select/All then Rotate.
(The whole Canvas should be blank now.)

Jinny Brown
http:/www.pixelalley.com
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Tony Karp wrote:
>
> This is for photographs.
>
> Up til now, I've been using a film camera, so rotating a vertical
> picture was done in the scanner.
>
> Now I'm playing with a digital camera and I want to rotate the image 90
> degrees in painter.

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[Mike C.]

I just use a small little utility for just rotating images ... it
is a "loss less" rotation utility.

It is called "Camera Aid".

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[Jinny Brown]

Mike,

Thanks for the tip! :o)

Jinny
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"Mike C." wrote:
>
> I just use a small little utility for just rotating images ... it
> is a "loss less" rotation utility.
>
> It is called "Camera Aid".

<SNIP>

[Jinny Brown]

Mike,

Just thought I'd mention that the utility you told us about is only for
Mac... or so the site says. Here's the link:

http://www.pp.clinet.fi/~jmunkki/cameraid/

Is that the same utility? If it is, do you know of a similar utility for
PC users?

Thanks,

Jinny Brown
http://www.pixelalley.com
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[Mike C.]

I do not know of a utility for the PC, but my guess is that there
is at least one.

":^) ®

[D. Grenier]

Try IrfanView:
http://www.irfanview.com/

The best freeware image app I have ever seen (with the possible exception of
GIMP).

Dave Grenier
Olympia, WA

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[Jinny Brown]

Mike,

Thanks again. That's my guess too. :o)

Jinny
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"Mike C." wrote:
>
> I do not know of a utility for the PC, but my guess is that there
> is at least one.
>
> ":^) ®

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