Sometimes it’s useful the change the units of measurement on your rulers. Change the units of the rulers to best suit your purpose Try setting vertical guides at 25%, 50% and 75% to divide your canvas into four equal columns.ħ. If you have snapping set to Document Bounds then you can drag out a guide and it will snap to the exact centre of the canvas (or the edges) but what if you want to dive your page into 4 or 5 equal sections? Simply go to View – New Guide and enter a position as a percentage. Often it is useful to divide your canvas up into equal sections and it’s easier to do this by percentage than working out exactly what one quarter of your page size is. Divide your canvas using guides set as percentages Now they can’t be moved or deleted but they can still be cleared or hidden.Ħ. Once you have your guides set up you can lock them (View – Lock Guides) to prevent them being moved or deleted accidentally. Lock guides to avoid accidentally changing them You can remove all guides by choosing Clear Guides from the View Menu.ĥ. If you want to remove a guide simply drag it back to the ruler. You can now pick up your guide and move it. Your cursor will change to a pair of parallel lines with arrows. To reposition a guide, activate the Move tool and hover your cursor over the guide. Do the same for a vertical guide by pulling out from the side ruler. Now you can snap other objects (each on their own layer) to this guide and they will all be perfectly aligned. When you get close to the top edge of your object the guide will snap to the edge and you can release the mouse button. Now click in the top ruler and drag downwards to pull out a guide.
Also make sure that the layer you want to snap to is active. Start by placing one image on your page and make sure the rulers are visible (View – Rulers). Once you have snapping turned on (and set for Layers) you can use it to pull out guides to fit an existing object (assuming the object is on its own layer). Pull out guides and snap to existing objects Keyboard Shortcut for rulers- (Ctrl+r), and in Photoshop Go to->view->rulers and if you want to show and hide the guides use (Ctrl+h) and in Photoshop Go to->view->show->guides(Ctrl+ ).ģ. You can use whatever units you want here – pixels, centimetres, inches – just type is after the figure, eg: 450 px, 4 cm or 3 in (note: you can type inches or in but not “) You can choose to set a horizontal or vertical guide and enter the exact position you want it to be. When you know exactly where you want to place a guide, use the New Guide option under the View Menu.
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Today I’m going to offer you a series of tips to get the most out of these tools and have your images looking professional and neat.īut before we start – what are guides and why should you use them? Guides are non-printing lines that can be placed vertically and horizontally on your canvas to help you line up the various objects or items on the page. Rulers and guides are an often overlooked feature of Photoshop – there isn’t that much use for them when editing photos or creating original artwork but for scientific images they are invaluable.
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