Fake rotate canvas in Photoshop CS3
When doing drawing intensive work in photoshop it would be great if you could rotate the canvas to get a less awkvard drawing orientation. Unfortunately Photoshop CS3 doesn’t have this feature.
But we can fake rotating canvas pretty well with a little trick.
First convert your pixel layers (Non-adjustment layers) to smart objects.
Now put everything, pixel layers, adjustment layers etc.. into a group.
Now just select the group folder and hit control+t and you can rotate everything in the group and orient everything so it lines up better for brush work.
Since your pixel layers are smart objects you can rotate them as many times as you like without loosing any image data. When you are done with any brush work such as dodging and burning just reset the group layer orientation and voila.
