Photoshop Tutorial: How to Rotate Vertical Images
Introduction: Photoshop is an amazing program brought to the world by Adobe Inc. Whether you're an advanced user or just a beginner, there are millions of different techniques and uses to learn and have fun with. In this tutorial, you will learn how to easily rotate your pictures. This technique is extremely simple and will help you when you take vertical pictures by holding your camera longways. Once you have rotated your pictures, they will be just one step closer to printing or emailing to friends or family. So put your imagination to work and have fun with this easy, quick, and fun tutorial.
1) To begin with, you'll need to open up Photoshop. If you don't have Photoshop, you will need to go to Adobe.com and download the free 30-day trial of the program. In 30 days you will need to buy the program if you want to keep it.
2) Once you have Photoshop downloaded, you'll need to open up your image on its own canvas by going to File>Open and then searching for your uploaded image.
3) To completely flip it, you will need to Image>Rotate Canvas and then select which preference you need. If you need to flip it 180 (meaning your picture is currently upside down), do so.
4) The most popular rotation is 90 degrees clockwise or counter clockwise. This means that you held your camera vertically when you took the initial picture.
5) One other option is Arbitrary, meaning that you will need to select the degrees in which to flip the picture and which direction, clockwise or counterclockwise, to flip the image. This is extremely helpful when you took the image when the camera was accidentally tilted. You may need to try a few times to get the degrees right to make the picture exactly straight.
If you mess up, over-rotate or under-rotate it, or change your mind, you will need to click CRTL+ALT+Z, which will take you back one step and allow you to try again. Not only can you use this "hot key" for going back while rotating, you can use it whenever. Keep in mind that you can click it more than once to go back numerous steps.
Additionally, make sure that you always save the original when working in Photoshop. The CRTL+ALT+Z button will only take you back a certain amount of steps.
6) So once you have the image rotated, save it as a new image by going to File>Save. The best name to save it as is usually the name of your image + rotated. This way you'll know while browsing through your images or in your computer files.
Keep in mind your image is perfect for printing, as most digital cameras take photos in high DPIs and high resolutions!
