Rotate 1° either direction with a single keystroke

[K. Beaver]

Hello!

I am placing and arranging photographs on a page for school yearbooks. These are not the grid-arranged panel pages, rather the scattered-style candid images.

Right now, I am placing and rotating by grabbing the corner, but I would like to hotkey Rotate 1° Clockwise/Counterclockwise to two of the Function keys. Would this be possible with a script set to a hotkey? I've never written a script before.

I have also used prearranged Library Styles with Bridge to place the images into a pre-scattered arrangement, but I honestly find it much faster because of culling and curation to place and rotate them individually.

[Steve Werner]

I don't know whether it could be scripted but you can separately set keyboard shortcuts for Object > Rotate... [which prompts you for a rotation angle] then press Return...

... and to repeat it, create a keyboard shortcut for Object > Transform Again...Transform Again

[K. Beaver]

I see. I was hoping to find an way to incrimentally adjust, as I wish to map it to a physical knob on my keyboard to rotate a selected object in as few keystrokes as possible.

Object > Transform Again is new to me, and solves an unrelated issue so I'm very thankful for that lesson.

[K. Beaver]

OH, I've reread and I think understand how this could be scripted. Thank you!

Now I just have to learn how to write a script for that, and I'll be set.

[brianp311 · Accepted solution]

The +1 rotation:

try { app.selection[0].rotationAngle += 1 } catch(e) {}

 And the -1:

try { app.selection[0].rotationAngle -= 1 } catch(e) {}

Only select one frame at a time. 

[K. Beaver]

Thank you so much. Got it keymapped in a few minutes, you're the best!