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Rotating and resetting the view

Rotating and resetting the view - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Rotating and resetting the view

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to rotate your view of the image, which can be useful when you're painting in edits. Because, after all, it's analogous to rotating a piece of paper when you're drawing on it. To rotate your view, go ahead and drop down to the Hand tool, near the bottom of the toolbox. And notice that that tool has a little triangle in its bottom right corner. That tells you that if you click and hold on the tool, you're going to bring up a fly-out menu, which in our case contains the Hand tool and the Rotate View tool, which has a keyboard shortcut of R, which will become important in a moment. Armed with that tool, just go ahead and drag inside the image window in order to rotate your view of the image. I stress, you are not rotating the image itself, you're just rotating the image on screen. And you also have this compass rose, which helps you align the image. For example, at this point, I've rotated the image about 45 degrees. That's a little bit…

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