Rotate your Canvas

[Gary Hazen]

Image > rotate canvas

[Zachary Hollifield]

I know that rotate… Say if you were drawing on a piece of paper and to get that perfect stroke, you would rotate the paper say 15 degrees. Is there a way to rotate your canvas 23 degrees, 12 degrees, 33 degrees ect…? Dont you think there shout be a hot key for that (alt+r and drag to the left or right) would be great huh!) If this exists in PS I’d love to know.

Thanks,

-Zach

[Jeff Kelley]

Are you just trying to rotate a canvas in Photoshop? As long as it’s on it’s own layer and not a background, just go Edit/Transform/Rotate. You get handles you can rotate you image or you can put in the exact degree’s in on top. There is a hot key for this. On a mac it’s Apple/t . then control click for the type of transform.

This is very basic photoshop.

[Zachary Hollifield]

This is what I mean. If you watch this video you can see there is a hotkey that he presses and rotates the canvas just ever so slightly to get that perfect line. Most of have a certain stroke of the pen when drawing or using the wacom tablet. Hes able to consistently rotate his canvas so he can keep his hand movent in one direction.

https://frenden.com/painter-x-inking-video-brush-settings/#more-68

In photoshop the only way I know of doing this is like you said, transform>rotate. But in painter X as you can see, its as simple as a key command with mouse drag. I hope this makes sense.

Thanks,

-Zach

[Ray Frenden]

Arbitrary, non-destructive canvas rotation does not exist in Photoshop. Painter, Manga Studio, OpenCanvas, Comicwerks and many other applications do, however, support it.

In Painter, Alt (or Option on Mac) + Space rotates the canvas on the fly. Painter’s brush algorithms are far better than Photoshop’s. The dampening and cubic interpolation (plus the ability to recognize stroke velocity as a determinate for how the brush reacts) is way above the latter’s brush engine.

[Staci Daniel]

Ok, I’m new to this whole forum communication thing, but just so you know, there IS A FAST way to rotate your canvas as you work with your tablet. The hot key default is set to “r” according to some people in the know.

BUT, you have to go into you wacoom tablet preferences to mess with your key setup. You can also make it so one of the buttons on your tablet cheat and activate this rotation tool, but mine for some reason isn’t working… and I can’t figure it out.

I’ll ask in class tomorrow… for my own benefit… and now yours too… assuming you’re still seeking answers.

ta ta.

[Alison Klepatsky]

Photoshop doesn’t have that aspect, but Corel Painter does! This is why I’ve migrated to Painter for all virtual sketches that must be done. Photoshop is still the best for photo manipulation.

[Theo Van laar]

And photoshop has the option to use the ruler to calculate (and apply) for you the degrees of rotation you need to get a line strainght horizontal…
Works much better that rotating by hand.

Theo

[Robert Morris]

Careful… Photoshop CS4 DOES have that feature, as someone stated above. Hit the “R” key while in Photoshop CS4 and you can rotate the canvas non-destructively. Just as the spacebar lets you pan.

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[Skip Hall]

Okay! I give! How the H–L does one [Theo van Laar] “use the ruler to calculate (and apply) for you the degrees of rotation you need to get a line strainght horizontal… “ ?? I’ve been searching and keywording and using every other search trick I know for nearly an hour, and yours is the closest I’ve come to the mark so far!

I’m sure when you’re rotating an image, there is a keyboard shortcut to use in making that image fit SQUARELY on the canvas. Trying to get that degree of precision by hand/eye seems fundamentally impossible. But which key to use for that shortcut, is a mystery to me.

Help?

Skip Hall
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Suffolk, Va