How do I lock rotation view in Photoshop?

[josiahm29169243]

How do I lock rotation view in Photoshop? It is annoying when the canvas rotates accidentally. I don't understand why Adobe allows the Rotation View to work without even having the tool selected.

[Sahil.Chawla]

Hi Josiahm,

I'm not sure if locking is possible, however, you can disable the rotate view feature. Please check this forum thread to know more: how do i disable the rotate view tool?

Regards,
Sahil

[josiahm29169243]

That forum is outdated. And it doesn't apply to the newer version of Photoshop CC 2019. Please try again.

Also it seems stupid. Why would I need to download something in order to disable rotate?

[Sahil.Chawla]

You could turn off OpenGL in Preferences > Performance > Advanced Settings, then relaunch Photoshop. That should disable the rotate view feature.

[Jeff Arola · Accepted solution]

See if going to Photoshop (Edit)>Preferences>Tools and unchecking Enable Gestures works.

[Trevor.Dennis]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Jeff+Arola  wrote

See if going to Photoshop (Edit)>Preferences>Tools and unchecking Enable Gestures works.

A good call Jeff. 

[gener7]

Seems there are no downsides. Disable Gestures, Rotate, switch to another tool and it will stay in place until you press the Escape key to reset it.

[Daniel311603986ena]

Its a horrible call. This does not work at all. Besides I dont want all gestures disabled, I want to be able to zoom using my touchscreen without accidentally rotating the image.

[cliffclof]

This does not work.  Only for those with devices that gestures would normally work on.. There is still a bug with standard PCs that randomly rotates the view clockwise when using alt+scroll wheel.   It's random when the rotation happens and sometimes happens with only pressing "alt"   very strange bug.

[A Jono Niko Studio]

This answer is incorrect, using Photoshop CC 2019 (20.0.4) on Windows 10 Pro with a Wacom Cintiq Pro tablet, disabling gestures doesn't do anything. I honestly can't understand why the canvas can't have a rotation lock by itself.

[Akebia]

I am having the same issue with CC 2019, disabling gestures doesn't prevent the canvas from rotating with a Cintiq. Particularly annoying when I'm just trying to zoom or pan, and have to manually re-orient the canvas every time. Is there a fix for this? (edit: I just found out esc resets it (derp) but it's still irritating)

[paule77934122]

Hey there. I find a way. It is not in Photoshop. You need to go to the Tablet settings and go to "standart-gestures" and there you can disabele rotation for the tablet. Hope that helps.

[baykala30960471]

Super annoying! super annoying. They have to make it easy to disable and able...