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Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition
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Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition

by Lesa Snider
August 2014
Beginner content levelBeginner
989 pages
34h 23m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Guides, Grids, and Rulers

Placing all the components of your design in the right spots can be challenging, and if you’re a real stickler for details, close isn’t good enough. This section teaches you how to use Photoshop’s guides, grids, and rulers to get everything positioned perfectly. Adobe calls these little helpers extras, and you access them via the View menu.

Rulers and Guides

Properly positioning objects on your canvas can be the difference between a basic design and a masterpiece. The quickest way to position and align objects is by drawing a straight line to nestle them against. You can do just that using Photoshop’s nonprinting guides—vertical and horizontal lines you can place anywhere you want (see Figure 2-14).

Guides help you position items exactly where you want ’em. Here, the light blue (cyan) guides help make sure all the text is the same width and the edges of the poster are free of clutter. Guides don’t show up when you print the image, so you don’t have to worry about deleting them.To add a guide in a certain spot, choose View→New Guide and then enter the position in the resulting dialog box. If you have trouble grabbing a guide to move it, try making the document window bigger than the canvas by dragging one of the window’s edges, or its lower-right corner, diagonally. That way, the guides extend beyond the canvas and don’t overlap other elements you might accidentally grab.You can change the rulers’ unit of measurement on the fly by Control-clicking (right-clicking) the ruler and then choosing the unit you want from the resulting shortcut menu. Alternatively, you can change it in the Units & Rulers preferences (page 28).

Figure 2-14. Guides help you position items exactly where you want ’em. Here, the light blue (cyan) guides help make sure all the text is the same width and the edges of the poster are free of clutter. Guides don’t show up when you print the image, so you don’t have to worry about deleting them. To add a guide in a certain spot, choose View→New Guide and then enter the position in the resulting dialog box. If you have trouble grabbing a guide to move it, try making the document window bigger than the canvas by dragging one of the window’s edges, or its lower-right corner, diagonally. That way, the guides extend beyond the canvas and don’t overlap other elements you ...

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