I select the rotate tool and click a layer that contains an image. I see a selection around the image. Not sure why and how to remove it. I rotate the layer. The rotated image is clipped against the selection, which means the rotated corners are cut off.
How do I rotate a layer without having it clipped against the selection?
I've tried all the different 'clipping' values in the tools menu. They all end up cropping the rotated image.
Do this:
Use the rotate tool. The canvas clips the image. But the image is now bigger than the canvas - the yellow dotted line shows the layer boundary.
Click Image > Fit Canvas to Layers, and the canvas expands to fit the rotated layer.
What you need is Clipping: adjust. However this resizes the layer but not the canvas, so if you start with a layer which is as big as the canvas, you may also need to use Image>Fit canvas to layers.
Unlike the paint tools, the Transform tools do not behave the same with a full selection or with no selection. To remove the selection, use Select>None.
I know this is an old post but I ran into this issue as well and for me doing a Select->None allowed the layer to rotate without clipping. Gimp looks to have auto-resized the layer with nothing selected.
In the menu system choose Layer -> Transform and in that sub-menu pick your desired rotation angle and direction from one of the presets or Arbitrary Rotation.
