I wish to know how to use the transform tool in succession, so that if I make a rotate and then perspective or warp, it maintains the rotate from earlier. Also what is recursive mode and does it work?

I think the wiki page has all you need to know: https://userbase.kde.org/Krita/Manual/Tools/Transform

In short, recursive transform work on group layers only and transforms each underlying layer. For the other thing you'll need to use transformation masks.

The wiki seems to have grown along with the new features, I will have to burn thru it, thanks Thera...

Transform masks dont work on selections, only on the entire layer, shall I make bug report ?

No, becasue it's no a bug. Transform masks only work on layers, sorry.

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