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Inspiring
November 30, 2016
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Rotate reset hot key?

  • November 30, 2016
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I used to be able to reset the rotate view by hitting C.  Now it doesn't work.  How can I reset this hot key?

    Correct answer annam45027050

    Thank you, gener7!

    I reset the Preferences and that did the trick.  I can now rotate view, draw & reset the view without foraging in the tools.  Love my shortcuts - hate the foraging.

    Thanks also to all you guys for the patience and persistence.

    3 replies

    JJMack
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    November 30, 2016

    However C is not only the Crop tools shortcut key it is also the perspective croptool shortcut key and the slice tool's shortcut and the slice selection tool Shortcut key.  Only the crop tool will reset image view retation first thing.  The other tool will not reset view rotation.

    JJMack
    gener7
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    November 30, 2016

    True and Correct, JJ.  I'm assuming she is using the regular crop tool unless she replies back and says otherwise.

    I'm guessing she wants to go from Rotate to Crop Tool in one key tap as part of the workflow and that should work.

    If it stopped doing that, it's usually Preferences.

    Gene

    Inspiring
    December 1, 2016

    Thanks so much for the input. Check forum for resolution.

    Inspiring
    November 30, 2016

    I know C is the crop tool.  However, up until a couple of weeks ago, when I would hit R, for the rotate view, and then C it would return my image to the proper orientation.  Something has happened so that using C will no longer work to reorient my image.

    Any ideas?

    Legend
    November 30, 2016

    Why use the C key? The Escape key cancels the rotation...

    Participating Frequently
    July 24, 2020

    Thanks you....I had no idea to use the escape key either....I appreciate your help. 

    JJMack
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    November 30, 2016

    From where could you use C?  C is Photoshop shortcut key for Photoshop's Cropping set of tools...

    If the rotating tool is active tool  C seems to work for me and it also switches to the crop tool. Switching to the ceop tool seems to reset images  rotation

    However, it will not un-rotate an image that has been actually rotated.  Just the image view rotation will be reset.

    Your problem may be that Photoshop is not seeing the key.   I have seen versions of Photoshop that fail to respond to shortcut at times on my windows system.  Sometimes I can get shortcut to work again by changing windows system focus to a Photoshop window by clicking on it.  So I do not know if the problem I see is a Photoshop problem or a Windows problem.

    JJMack