Rotate your canvas
Ivan | Tue, 2009-08-18 16:35
Sometimes you may want to look at you artwork at different angles. In fact many designers prefer looking at their designs upside down to find mistakes or ideas for further improvement.
You can do this virtually in Photoshop without affecting the pixel information in your image.
Click and hold the Hand Tool, it will open up an option called Rotate View Tool. Now you can rotate your image to any degree. If you use an Apple laptop you can use the rotate gesture to freely rotate the image around as well.
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You should specify that this little trick works only with Photoshop CS4. It is a new feature, something Corel Paint Shop Pro easily used a long time ago, but not Photoshop.
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Yes, this is correct. Only CS4 can do this.
Ahhhhhhhh, that explains why I couldn't get it to work then, derrrrr.
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Really? No jokes you found it randomly? wow i just joined this forum day before yesterday...lol !
Totally random. :)
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I just discovered this myself, recently, while working on an illustration in Photoshop. In my case, I accidentally had my finger on the 'R' key while using the paint brush and voila: A shortcut! Just the 'R' key, no other keys.
Handy dandy.
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This old trick has been in Paint'09 for months!
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I'm surprised nobody knew about this. The "Rotate View" icon is right up in the new Application Bar at the top of the screen. Or, to make it even easier, just hit the "R" key to activate the tool.
By the way, if you hold the Shift key down, it'll rotate in specific angles (such as 15˚, 30˚, 45˚, etc.). It makes it easy to rotate it sideways, completely upside down, or back to right-side up again.
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Thanks Jim, I didn't know about the Shift option.