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adam731
adam731
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February 12, 2019
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How to rotate canvas without losing my place

  • February 12, 2019
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When I'm drawing in Photoshop, I can switch to the rotate view to change the rotation angle of the canvas, so that even when I'm zoomed in, I'm still in the same area of the canvas before and after rotation.

If I use Image>Image Rotation>90°, however, the image rotates along the images center, so if I'm zoomed in, I completely lose my place.

I'd like to have a button that allows me to rotate the canvas a preset amount, without losing my place.  Is there a way to do this?

Thanks,


Adam

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    gener7
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    gener7Community Expert
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    February 12, 2019

    Just to be clear, do you want to rotate the canvas or rotate the view on screen?  Only use Rotate Canvas if you mean to keep it there.

    Rotate view is like turning a piece of paper so you get a better drawing angle, it does not change the canvas.

    Using the Rotate Tool, you can enter 90 degrees and not lose your place. Esc on your keyboard resets it when done.

      adam731
      adam731Author
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      February 12, 2019

      Thanks, the rotate tool works great, but I'd like to be able to press a button to rotate the view by a fixed amount.  With the hand tool it seems like I can only click and drag, or enter the specific angle. 

      Do you know of a way to rotate the view in a fixed increment, like you can when you rotate the canvas 90 degrees?

      Simmer1
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      Simmer1Community Expert
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      February 12, 2019

      hi,

      Try using the rotate Hand Tool, the short for this tool is R.

      Cheers,

      Sim

        adam731
        adam731Author
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        February 12, 2019

        Thanks,

        Is there a way to have the rotate hand tool move by a fixed increment?  Ideally I'd like to press a button and have the view move 30 degrees.    I tried to make an action to do this but it seems like you can't use the rotate tool to make an action.

        gener7
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        gener7Community Expert
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        February 13, 2019

        I can direct you to the PS scripting forum Photoshop Scripting

        Just make it clear you want to rotate the view and not the image itself.

        You could assign a hotkey to Image > Image Rotation > 90 degrees clockwise, but you are rewriting the image pixels every time you do this and you have to rewrite them back to get back to your original orientation.

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