How to rotate an image in photoshop without rotating the canvas

Photoshop's Rotate View Tool makes editing, drawing and painting in Photoshop easier than ever. Learn how to rotate your view as you work, and how to take advantage of "spring-loaded" tools in Photoshop for the best results!

For Photoshop CC and CS6.

Written by Steve Patterson.

If you've ever drawn with a pencil, or even colored with a crayon, you know that sometimes, turning the paper to rotate your view makes it easier to work. The same is true with our images.

Rotating the view of an image can make it easier to edit or retouch certain areas. Photoshop lets us rotate our view using the Rotate View Tool. We'll learn how to use the Rotate View Tool in this tutorial.

Notice that the name of the tool is Rotate View, not Rotate Image.

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Much like rotating the paper doesn't really rotate the drawing (it just rotates the paper underneath the drawing), Photoshop's Rotate View Tool doesn't actually rotate our image. Instead, it rotates the canvas that the image is sitting on.

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