How to turn off trackpad features

Need to deactivate (at least) the "rotate" feature on the trackpad. Makes using Photoshop a pain with it on.
Don't see any option to turn this (or many other features) off in the trackpad prefs panel.
How can I do this?
Also my web browser is constantly changing size ... quite annoying. I'm obviously hitting something on the trackpad, but I'd simply like to make it into a "normal" trackpad. I use the two finger scroll & such but all the other features just make this computer a pain to use ... need them all off.

I don't have a rotate feature on my trackpad, which makes me guess that you have the new Macbooks with iPhone-like pads...
But, my guess would be to go to Apple menu > System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse...there's shortcuts there for me, at least...???
Hope that helps somewhat!

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