Photoshop 27.5 Introduces an Incredible New AI Tool that Rotates 2D Images in 3D

The latest beta version of Photoshop 27.5 has introduced an impressive new tool that lets you rotate photos of 2d objects in 3d space using AI. You can literally take a photographed object and rotate it on any axis. It’s like something out of a SciFi movie! I made a video to demonstrate it in action…

I had seen people demonstrating this on various social media networks, and thought “there’s no way that’s real”, but it is! If you don’t have the beta version of Photoshop, as long as you’re a subscriber to the photography plan, or the all apps plan, you should be able to download it. Just go to the Apps tab, and then there’s a “beta” section and you can find it there.

To get to the rotate tool, just click on the transform control on the contextual bar thingey (the technical name for it!) and then you should see the rotate object tool. Note that you have to be in 8bit mode for this to work.

I am genuinely impressed with this. It’s not perfect, but considering what it’s doing, it’s kind of magic. I can only assume it will get better in the future. I’m not a massive fan of generative AI when just used for slop or creating whole images, but as a tool like this it’s pretty impressive and actually could be of use to save time when working.