Adobe Community: rotate view, but keep guides vertical/horizontal?

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1. gener7,

Aug 14, 2012 12:15 PM in reply to lmaclanphere

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The Rotate Tool will always rotate the guides with the image. I would suggest the crop tool. You can rotate the image keeping the guides in place. Of course the crop tool actually rotates the image instead of the view,but you can always straighten the image when you are finished.

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2. station_two,

Aug 14, 2012 12:15 PM in reply to lmaclanphere

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Sounds like you want to rotate the image itself, not the view. Otherwise how can you rotate the view and not have the guides follow along?

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3. lmaclanphere,

Aug 14, 2012 12:26 PM in reply to station_two

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thanks both

I am using a tablet, and I want to use rotate view because, as I understand, this is a non-destructive transform?

LML

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4. station_two,

Aug 14, 2012 12:30 PM in reply to lmaclanphere

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lmaclanphere wrote:

…I want to use rotate view because, as I understand, this is a non-destructive transform…

Correct, But the guides get rotated too.

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5. lmaclanphere,

Aug 14, 2012 12:31 PM in reply to station_two

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kool, got it

LML

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6. gener7,

Aug 14, 2012 12:35 PM in reply to lmaclanphere

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It is non-destructive,and I know image rotation is destructive because the pixels must be re-written. My question would be "how destructive?" Make a duplicate of your image,try rotating using the crop tool,and see if there is visible damage. If not...rotating the image and keeping the guides in place may just work out.

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7. station_two,

Aug 14, 2012 12:34 PM in reply to lmaclanphere

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The reason it's non-destructive is because it's not a transform at all. It's just a temporary gimmick with the display only, not the actual pixels in the image. That's why the guides follow along.

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8. gener7,

Aug 14, 2012 12:44 PM in reply to station_two

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station_two, I keep hearing that word "destructive" yet I wonder how many times you can transform an image before you see any damage? Any idea?

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9. station_two,

Aug 14, 2012 12:53 PM in reply to gener7

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"Non-destructive" is really a "term of art" used as shorthand for "without affecting the original pxels of the image". The opposite doesn't really or necessarily imply that the pixels get destroyed or damaged, simply transformed in some way. That can be beneficial to the image, of course.

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10. charles badland,

Aug 14, 2012 1:00 PM in reply to gener7

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Here is Difference mode two CW rotation of 45º and one CCW rotation of 90º.

(Difference lightened some with Levels adjustment layer. )

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11. gener7,

Aug 14, 2012 1:13 PM in reply to station_two

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Ok,then if that is the case,then using the Free transform command or the Crop tool would rotate the image (I guess positioning the image makes it easier to edit or paint) and keep the guidlines in place since "Rotate View" naturally will not. That's what I was thinking,but I did want to be sure there wasn't some downside to that idea.

Thanks for clearing it up.

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