How can I rotate an image and scale about origin point when viewing it magnified ?
Hi,
I have two images taken handheld of the same subject from the same viewpoint same focal length same aperture etc seconds apart and have one at 50% layer opacity.
I position this so that it matches the image underneath in part of the picture and drag the origin to that spot but it needs rotating to marry up.
when zoomed in to see I am marrying it up accurately and getting a perfect match the rotate handles are not accessible. One has to zoom out to see the handles sitting beyond the canvas but then accurate matching is no longer possible.
How can one rotate by hand when zoomed in ?
Also it needs a slight rescaling as I do so, so holding alt down and dragging the handle to scale about the seed point/origin is needed but again handles are only accessible when zoomed out and at that mag I am not able to be accurate. Also alt stops the rotate command from working !
This control is fundamental tooling yet seems decades out of date in its handling limits.
Otherwise the ability to select certain points on the second image and then select same points on the target image and say refit photo best fit would be a superb tool.
( options to allow for local distortion or uniform scaling maybe)
I have in fact loads of such pictures to rotate and scale to marry up.
is there maybe a plug in that provides better image rotation and scaling ? Anything that matches one photo to another ? Selecting source and destination points would be super.
I am CS6 .
DBenz
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