Can you rotate images in GIMP?

[Zakama]

Not by angles like 90 and 180, I mean more fine tuned. For instance, the hobo in the first panel of this comic (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0511.html) is leaning over. So what I mean is, could you draw that straight up and down and then rotate it? Thanks for any help.

[Elvaris]

What you can do is put whatever you want to rotate in its own layer and use Layer>Transform>Arbitrary Rotation. If you're working on an existing document, you can select what you want to rotate and Select>Float will give you the layer you can rotate.

So... Yes, yes you can rotate things in GIMP.

Edit: Hmm... just noticed the "Rotate layer or selection" tool. Shift-R should give you all the options you need.

[Bryn]

Yes, just select something then press the rotation tool on the main tools menu. It looks like this:
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/6549/rotatetoolto5.png
Then click and drag on your selection to rotate it. You can also input a specific number of degrees with the dialogue box.