Rotating a Layer or Selection

Rotating a Layer or Selection

Earlier, you may have used the Free Transform command to resize layers and

selections, and thought it was pretty swell. What you probably weren’t aware of

at the time is that the very same command can also be used to rotate layers and

selections!

Basic Skills

Solution

Make a selection or choose the layer you’d like to rotate.                         

Select Edit > Free Transform or press Ctrl-T (Command T),

and move your cursor outside the bounding box.

You’ll see that it turns into a curved, two-headed arrow

as shown in this example. You can click and drag this

cursor to rotate the elements within the bounding box.

Hold down the Shift key to constrain the angle

movement to 15-degree increments. You can also set

a specific angle of rotation (between −180° and 180°)

in the Angle text box in the options bar.

TIP Rotation

Alternatives

Press Enter or double-click inside the bounding box to complete the transformation.