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I'm trying GIMP for the first time. I have a comic page drawn on a rather large piece of bristol board, and my scanner's not big enough for it. So I decide to scan it in two pieces. And this is when the heartache begins.

Two questions.

1 How can I rotate an image by just a few degrees?

2 When I increase the canvas size and try to paste image A onto image B, I can only see image B where it intersects image A. How can I get my entire image pasted together and visible?

I thank you in advance and apologize if my frustration is translating to rudeness over the internet.

1. Use the Rotate tool, (Shift-R on my copy, but I may have changed the shortcut key), then click on the image. A rotation grid will show up and a dialog in which you can type angles and center points. It's not as good as it should be, but it's very granular, down to 1/100 of a degree.
2. Flatten the image before pasting in the selection, or create a non-transparent background layer.

Hm. Rotate tool wasn't doing anything at all for me, outside of a having pretty grid spinning around in front of my image. Gr.

I will try flattening the image though. Maybe I should try that before rotating, too.

Any ideas as to why rotate isn't working for me?

Thanks.

selecting the transform (rotate) tool by itself doesn't make your image rotate; you then twiddle until you've selected the angle you want, and press the ok/transform/whatever-it's-called button on the tool's popup to make it perform the rotation.

That's what I had been doing. I'd twirl the thing for a while, hit rotate, and it would think for a while until it declared itself done after not doing anything.

In either case, I don't know what I did differently because it started to work. Thanks for your suggestions, guys.