Rotate Canvas in Photoshop?

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    Shipping & Sales

    Hi Barry, there are some technical limitations stopping us from adding it right away, but yes—we're planning to add a rotate canvas view function.

    What would be more useful to you—free rotation, or constrained? If constrained, how many degrees per step?

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    Barry Craig

    Thanks Andy, for my needs free rotation would be ideal as I tweak the angle quite often when working in photoshop. 

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    Astedall

    Just to add, I too have asked for this in the past and would be highly interested in it.

    This would in act exactly the same as a trackpad rotate / wacom wheel rotate, the difference would be that we would have an analog dial to use instead, which is superior in feedback.

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    Astedall

    Hi Andy,

    Now with the new hardware and software, can rotating the canvas freely with the rotate tool be achieved with a dial? A click would reset the rotation.

    Thanks,

    Alex

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    Shipping & Sales

    Hi Alex, I wish this were the case—it's been one feature request we've had open for years and still re-investigate frequently. Wall of text ahead, but I feel it's necessary to give some background:

    There's a technical barrier on the Photoshop side—there is no SDK functionality in Photoshop that allows free rotation of the canvas. Our team had hoped and expected that we'd have access to this feature before now, especially since the Wacom tablet and multi-touch trackpad have access. However, my colleagues in development noted that those solutions seem to be specific to that hardware and inaccessible through the published Photoshop SDKs.

    Following the original feature request, we forwarded this to Adobe's PS team and re-surfaced it with them on multiple occasions—I suspect they haven't seen requests from their paying customers to match what we've asked for through our channels, so it hasn't been prioritized accordingly.

    At this point, the way forward is for interested Monogram (and Palette) owners to continue prioritizing the request with Adobe's PS team directly via UserVoice or similar, in order to better demonstrate this interest from the user's side and not just the developer's side.

    I hope all the above helps.

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    Astedall

    Thanks for this Andy, appreciate your informative and honest response.

    Guess what, I'm so close to cracking it! I have scoured the internet trying to find an answer and I'm so close, wanted to finish it myself but cannot find out how to rotate left using the rotate view tool. This is where I have to;

    Reset view = Escape = Press dial button

    Rotate in increments of 5° to the right = alt+F13

    Cannot for the life of me find rotate to the left though, I think the sensitivity could be adjusted higher than 5 for this to work smoothly and less thumb work, please let me know if you guys find out how to rotate left please.

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    Astedall

    Complete! – Any chance of setting it to rotate quicker than level 5 please?

    Reset view = Escape = Press dial button

    Rotate in increments of 5° to the right = alt+F13

    Rotate in increments of 5° to the left = alt+F14 (remembering to turn off the default mac setting – screen brightness)

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    Astedall

    Just to add, it's actually a smoother rotation than the Wacom touch wheel!!

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    Astedall

    {

    "color": "#ff4000",

    "label": "Rotate Tool",

    "leftTurn": {

    "key": "scroll_lock",

    "modifiers": [

    "alt"

    ],

    "virtual": false

    },

    "press": {

    "key": "escape",

    "modifiers": [],

    "virtual": false

    },

    "rightTurn": {

    "key": "printscreen",

    "modifiers": [

    "alt"

    ],

    "virtual": false

    },

    "sensitivity": 9

    }

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    Saj Khan

    where can I enter this code? 

     

    EDIT: Nevermind, I saved a profile, then edited it in notepad, then found the space in the saved profile where it needed to be pasted.

    I didn't bother trying to paste it in there as the code in that file was all stuck together. Wordwrap didn't help either so another solution:

    I assigned the F13 and F14 keys on my Elgato Streamdeck (it has a key dropdown selection) so it was easy to set that way. My express shuttle also has a dropdown that lets you assign keys too so that's another way.

    Would be nice if monogram had dropdowns.

    Had to do it this way as windows onscreen keyboard doesn't have function keys and my keyboard is one of those smaller ones without those extra keys.

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    Shipping & Sales

    Hi Saj, try this:

    1. Go to Monogram Creator > Preferences
    2. Select Advanced
    3. Select "Enable Debugging of Module Settings via Manual Entry" and hit "Done"
    4. Select a dial and select "Manual Entry" from the left-hand side
    5. Remove all existing code and paste in the above code. Select "Check and Save" — if it doesn't work, check your code for errors and re-try.

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