How to rotate your Photoshop brushes
When you’re working with Photoshop brushes such as corner shaped or otherwise directionally oriented, you can easily rotate the brush to fit your needs without manually rotating them with the Transform command. 
In the sample image above, I want to use a brush that was meant to be used in the lower right corner. But I want to use it in the upper right corner, so I need to rotate the brush. First, open the Brushes panel by going to Window>Brushes. When the panel pops up, select the brush you wish to use. Next, select Brush Tip Shape from the Brush Presets list on the left side. Finally, click the arrow on the crosshair icon in the lower right and drag it so the arrow points in the direction you wish to have the brush point. You can preview the brush direction change simply by moving your cursor over the canvas area – the brush outline will give you the visual feedback you need.
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Just left the comment below on another site, it may be helpful if you are having trouble finding this palette of options, as I was:
(http://photoshopcall.com/photoshop-brushes/how-to-rotate-photoshop-cs4-brushes/)
I’m on CS3 currently; I was looking for a rotate brush option and couldn’t find it. Found some search results that were a 2-3 years old, pointing out this particular Brushes palette but I just couldn’t find it, thought maybe PS did away with it. I see this tutorial is for CS4 so I knew it was in there somewhere. I just so happened to trying changing my saved workspace to the “Legacy” preset, then pressing F5, and voila! There it was. A control click (while in Brushes) still only brings up the tip choices, but not the full set of options shown here with rotate, spacing, etc. So maybe if I save this as my new preferred workspace, I’ll be OK for the future. Thanks for the tutorial.
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