Feedback which criticizes Krita is great and we need it, but I wanted to gush a bit about the new ‘rotate transform bounding box’ feature. The one where you can hold shift to rotate the box around the selection without modifying the selection.
Great addition, simple to use, smooth, extremely useful on multiple occasions, absolutely love it. Probably best QoL change since referencing color-label layers for fill/magic wand tool. We need more ““small”” features which make artist’s lives slightly easier, their usefulness compounds if you have to do something for hours at a time.
Is this in a test version or the latest release (5.2.6), because I’ve been unable to get it to work on my PC (windows 10). I’ve tried Shift, Ctrl, Alt… No combination of key holding lets me change the orientation of the Rig. It just changes the method used to transform the selection. I’m not sure if something I’m doing wrong; if I’m using the wrong version of Krita; or have somehow changed a setting that’s keeping me from using the feature.
I tried the 18th Nov krita-5.3.0-prealpha-d772e64fb6 appimage and I can’t get it to work.
If I press Shift after/before clicking when the rotation handle is showing, it just rotates the image and bounding box as it usually does.
For some reason it didn’t work for me either, so I changed the settings this way and solved the problem. Not sure if it is the same in your case, but give it a try.
@Michelist - Thank you. Getting the latest dev build was a part of my issue.
@AhabGreybeard - Yep, that was my issue, as well (apart from not initially using the latest Dev release). Shift wouldn’t work. Needed to use Ctrl + Alt + Left Click Hold.
My feature request thread from 2022 ought to be closed to release votes. That later thread really took off by comparison.