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Rotating a layer

Rotating a layer - Photoshop Tutorial

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Rotating a layer

- [Instructor] Let's go ahead and lock the castle group layer, just using this icon on the right-hand side, and we'll add some more content. In the exercise files there is this render of a dragon, which I think we could make-- Let's make that quite a bit larger, let's make that the main gig here. This time we're going to use this small rotation widget at the top here to rotate this around. Let's get a more menacing angle there with a bit of wing, almost horizontal and the rest of the body pointing downwards. Yeah, I think that looks pretty bad. Bad in a good way, of course. (chuckling) Step done. Okay, now we have the dragon in place. What we can then do is select that. Now at the moment we've got kind of everything laying over the top of the artwork, so one of the things you can do is pinch in on the layers to switch them to compact mode. In fact, give that a couple of goes. Swipe outwards and pinch in directly…

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