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[Feature request] - Improving UI speed for crop + rotate image
My primary use case is pedestrian but common: clip/crop/rotate and finally save images (often from clipboard).
Things I notice:
- There's no shortcut to commit a crop once the boundary has been drawn. IE enter, or a right click would make this noticeably quicker to execute.
- While flip LR/UP get primary menu placement under Image, Rotate Counter and Clockwise don't; at least for me the other way around would be preferable. BUT even better is if the lefthand toolbar had these as single click commands, no menu needed. Likewise, hotkeys for Counter/Clockwise rotation would greatly speed this task. I'd go so far as to make them single key shortcuts, perhaps < and > could be mapped to rotation.
eg new toolbar mockup
to be clear I'm focusing on this workflow because it's what I use the tool for, my prior goto for this was mspaint but MS has bloated it beyond recognition. Your tool gets a considerable boost for this use due to it's fast startup, even though I own (and old) copy of photoshop for heavy duty editing.
- There's no shortcut to commit a crop once the boundary has been drawn. IE enter, or a right click would make this noticeably quicker to execute.
If you double click in the crop window area,. it crops to the selection. So perhaps not a keyboard shortcut, but for the 🖱 there is.
. Likewise, hotkeys for Counter/Clockwise rotation would greatly speed this task. I'd go so far as to make them single key shortcuts, perhaps < and > could be mapped to rotation.
You can set shortcuts for these actions using Tools > Keyboard shortcuts > Image > Rotate...
Hello @alanbork . Thank you for this feedback.
Nightly builds now default to Ctrl+[ and Ctrl+] hotkeys for Image Rotate Left/Right.
These hotkey combinations match current hotkeys in Photoshop. Where possible, I try to use the same conventions as other popular photo editors, so that users can switch between apps more easily (without needing to re-train muscle memory).
The double-click inside the crop area to commit a crop convention also comes from Photoshop, but I had overlooked a similar keyboard shortcut! Nightly builds now also use the Enter key to commit the current crop. This was a bad oversight on my part.
Thank you again for the feedback, and my apologies for taking so long get this fixed!
yeah for sure use what photoshop does. thanks these changes sound like a real improvement.