It would be even more useful for InDesign — folded pieces can be a pain (no need for suggestions, I know all the workarounds). I’ve been asking for it for a couple years.
BTW, there is a feature request forum at the top of the page. I know you’ve already posted this twice and don’t mean to give you the runaround, but I thought I’d point it out.
Why can’t you rotate with Ctrl-T to your hearts desire, and then re-orient it when you are done? You can use the corner nodes for free rotation. Or, maybe I’m not understanding?
Peace,
Tony
Thanks Gene,
I wasn’t sure if this feature had made it’s way into CS (I only recently loaded it) I had searched but didn’t see it listed so I thought I’d post here to see if it was there and I didn’t see it, or if there was a plugin/work around.
I’m sure it must have been requested a million times by now. Every ID guy I know has been wanting it. Of course that doesn’t mean that any of us have done anything about it. Bloody designers! 🙂
I find a drawing tablet, even the $99 Wacom, makes it much easier to draw with Illustrator and Photoshop. Rotate your hand or the tablet, instead of the screen image.
Tony,
In Painter you just interactively rotate the paper while you are drawing kind of like holding the space bar to move the paper up down sidways.
I suppose in theory you could do the transform rotate, but if you had to do that every time you wanted to use the hand move tool it would be quite slow.
It may seems like if that is so important to just use Painter, but also in Painter your computer crashes all the time, you can’t work on large files efficiently, the zoom tool stops working after ten minutes, it stops accepting pressure input from my Wacom. Oh and the interface despite a refresh to look more Photoshoppy is still terrible once you are used to PS. Other than that it is a great program and I can’t see why it isn’t more popular than Photoshop!!
🙂
r-harvey,
I do have a Wacom which is why I find the lack of this feature even more frustrating. I have a larger tablet so rotating on my desk is clumsy to say the least.
I may have to try rotating the tablet though. Do you find it took a while to get used to rotating the tablet since you are now drawing in a different orientation to the screen?
Robert,
Thanks for the clarification. I have never worked that way so it hadn’t occurred to me, but I see what you mean.
Peace,
Tony
Do you find it took a while to get used to rotating the tablet since you are now drawing in a different orientation to the screen?
I’m backhanded left-handed, so I’m used to everything being slightly cockeyed.
Anyway, you look at the screen, not the tablet, so it seems natural in no time. I keep the tablet a little crooked anyway, because that’s the only way I can draw straight with it.
