Ease of rotating and cropping images in CS6

There is much I like about the new crop: Rotating the image instead of the box is SO much easier and the straighten option is a great time saver.
But in one instance, I'm finding cropping in CS6 to be harder: Cropping images that are not correctly oriented in the first place. Rotating an image 90-degrees was a snap in CS2: Alt-I/E/0. The shortcut keys are gone in CS6, so using the rotation command is no longer quick.
But I can do it in the crop box, right? True -- but not easily. The image is landscape, the crop box is portrait. With the crop tool selected, holding the shift key down to get fixed-increment rotations doesn't work: Pressing the SHIFT key changes the cursor from rotation to the crop cursor. To get the rotation, I have to start rotating the image and then press SHIFT to get 15-degree increments. A few moments later, I have rotated the image into portrait orientation -- and the crop box is now centered on the image, but it is set to crop the middle. I have to drag the handles out to get approximately what I want: The full image in the crop box. (What I want is what I would get if I rotate the image with the Rotate command, then control-zero to fill the screen, and then select the crop tool.)
We rotate a lot of images. It's easy to do in CS2 and the two approaches I've found for CS6 are both awkward. The new crop tool has replaced the dual arrows in older versions (to swap the horizontal and vertical sizes) with a rotation arrow. I think you should restore the arrows (and their function) -- then use the rotate button to rotate the image, not the crop box. (Isn't that the design center for the new crop box? We're moving the image, not the crop box.)

Howard, thanks for the tip about the X key; didn't realize it worked that way when the crop tool is active. But in this case I had set the crop box dimenions, so the crop box starts out with the correct orientation. Having played with this for a day, I conclude that the best approach for this task is to restore the old keyboard conventions for image rotation and rotate the image before launching the crop tool.
I stand by my observation that the rotate key should affect the image, not the crop box because that is consistent with the new cropping paradigm: We rotate the image, not the crop box. I realize making a change this late in the development cycle is awkward -- but if CS6 ships with this behavior, it will become even harder to change later -- and the user interface should be as consistent as possible.
Noel, you are correct: The images are coming from scanned film. All frames get scanned with the same orientation. I want to avoid the "Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do this. Doctor: Then don't do that!" scenario. Granted: If images are "correctly" oriented, this issue doesn't arise. But not all images are oriented correctly and CS6 should be at least as graceful in handling the task as previous versions.

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I did a lot of such hymn things in the past, but I was alway working on the scans in Photoshop, like adjusting, retouching spots and cropping. And I was always seperating those images to be more flexible so I never run into such a problem.
I am always scanning in a higher quality level than I would need, I scan it in color, this allows me to eliminate paper color easily, even if I need 1-bit images at the end, I do it in color, so I can also turn the image.
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Problem in rotating and moving image at the same time

the problem is that im making a car game(2D) in which u have upper view of car.
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nd another problem is that i cannot both rotate and move the car at same time
example if i press both up nd right arrow keys i doesnt move nd rotate..
nd also plz tell me the accelerate nd reverse method so i can speedup my car like other car games
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import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
import java.applet.*;
import java.net.URL;
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static int x=560;
static int y=410;
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static double hspeed,vspeed;
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frame.addKeyListener(new adapter());
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g.drawLine(320,460,320,380);
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g.drawLine(230,380,230,460);
g.drawLine(230,460,2,460);
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g.drawLine(105,370,105,300);
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g.drawLine(105,300,105,250);
g.drawLine(105,250,550,250);
g.drawLine(550,250,550,20);
g.drawLine(550,20,275,20);
g.drawLine(450,180,450,100);
g.drawLine(450,100,360,100);
g.drawLine(360,100,360,160);
g.drawLine(360,160,10,160);
g.drawLine(10,160,10,30);
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g.drawLine(110,90,110,30);
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the problem is that im making a car game(2D) in which u have upper view of car.
i have make the car rotate bt problem is that i canot move it forward or backward correctly
.wen i move it forward or backward i goes wrong...
nd another problem is that i cannot both rotate and move the car at same time
example if i press both up nd right arrow keys i doesnt move nd rotate..
nd also plz tell me the accelerate nd reverse method so i can speedup my car like other car games
plz help me
here is the code
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
import java.applet.*;
import java.net.URL;
public class RaceGame extends JComponent
static int x=560;
static int y=410;
static int currentAngle=0;
static double hspeed,vspeed;
static int carspeed=1;
Image car;
//int angle=car.getAngle();
Image getImage(String filename)
URL url = getClass().getResource(filename);
ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon(url);
return icon.getImage();
//Rectangle2D.Float rect=new Rectangle2D.Float(x,y,30,30);
//Rectangle rect=new Rectangle(x,y,30,30);
public RaceGame()
car=getImage("car1.jpeg");
public void CreateBase()
JFrame frame=new JFrame("Dare2Race");
frame.setBounds(70,30,650,500);
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frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
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c.add(new RaceGame());
frame.addKeyListener(new adapter());
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repaint();
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super.paint(g);
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g2d.setTransform(newXform);
g2d.drawImage(car,x,y,this);
g2d.setTransform(origXform);
g.setColor(Color.WHITE);
g.drawLine(640,380,420,380);
g.drawLine(640,460,320,460);
g.drawLine(420,380,420,300);
g.drawLine(320,460,320,380);
g.drawLine(420,300,125,300);
g.drawLine(320,380,230,380);
g.drawLine(230,380,230,460);
g.drawLine(230,460,2,460);
g.drawLine(125,300,125,370);
g.drawLine(125,370,105,370);
g.drawLine(2,460,2,180);
g.drawLine(105,370,105,300);
g.drawLine(2,180,450,180);
g.drawLine(105,300,105,250);
g.drawLine(105,250,550,250);
g.drawLine(550,250,550,20);
g.drawLine(550,20,275,20);
g.drawLine(450,180,450,100);
g.drawLine(450,100,360,100);
g.drawLine(360,100,360,160);
g.drawLine(360,160,10,160);
g.drawLine(10,160,10,30);
g.drawLine(275,20,275,90);
g.drawLine(275,90,110,90);
g.drawLine(110,90,110,30);
repaint();
class adapter extends KeyAdapter
public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e)
switch(e.getKeyCode())
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    vspeed=((double)carspeed)*Math.sin(currentAngle);
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