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Rotating and resetting your view

Rotating and resetting your view - Photoshop Tutorial

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Rotating and resetting your view

- [Instructor] All right now, when you're drawing in the real world with a pencil or a pen and a piece of paper, it's not uncommon to move the paper around, to rotate it to get your hand in a better position. And that's something you can do inside Photoshop as well. You can temporarily rotate your view. And here's how it works. I'm going to go ahead and turn off that top layer, and I'm going to press control-shift-N, or command-shift-N on the Mac, in order to create a new layer that I will call Face 6 this time around. And I'm going to stick with symmetrical painting, because it's so very fun. And I'll choose vertical once again so that we have just a single axis. And I'll go ahead and drag it around to this location here. And then I'll press the enter key, or the return key on the Mac, to accept that change. But let's say I actually want to see this line straight up and down. Then I would go ahead and click and hold on…

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