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Oct 1, 2009 1:09:00 GMT -6
Post by Jen on Oct 1, 2009 1:09:00 GMT -6
Guides are helpful thin lines that you get by clicking and dragging from your rulers which are located at the top and left side of your file. If you don't see your rulers go to View in the menu bar and make sure Rulers is checked. You can change the color and style of your guides by going to the menu bar and selecting Photoshop>Preferences>Guides, Grids, Slices.
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Oct 1, 2009 1:10:03 GMT -6
Post by Jen on Oct 1, 2009 1:10:03 GMT -6
You can choose to Show or Hide your guides. A check means they are showing. You can Lock your guides so they won't move. To get your guides to "snap" choose View from the menu bar and make sure Snap and Guides are both checked like in the picture.
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Oct 1, 2009 1:11:43 GMT -6
Post by Jen on Oct 1, 2009 1:11:43 GMT -6
Once set to Snap To Guides there are a bunch of things you can do. If you fill a layer with a color and click and drag a guide over you will feel it snap to the center of your file. It's actually snapping to the center of what's on the active layer. A guide will not snap into place in an empty layer with a transparent background. You can now make a selection and then drag it to the center. As you drag you'll feel it pull towards the guide the closer it gets. Eventually snapping into place centered with the guide. You're centering everything on the active layer. So if you have one or more objects on a layer, or a picture that fills the entire layer, that's what will be centered. You can also use a guide from the top ruler to put whatever is on the layer dead center in your file.
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Oct 1, 2009 1:12:14 GMT -6
Post by Jen on Oct 1, 2009 1:12:14 GMT -6
You can use guides to keep things symmetrical like I'm going to do with this face. I've made my head and dragged the guide to the center. After I made each of my facial features on their own layer one at a time I dragged them to the guide. For the eyes I made one eye and then made a copy of its layer. I linked and merged the two eye layers and then dragged them to the guide.
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Oct 1, 2009 1:12:41 GMT -6
Post by Jen on Oct 1, 2009 1:12:41 GMT -6
You can use your guides to keep things on the same level.
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Oct 1, 2009 1:13:13 GMT -6
Post by Jen on Oct 1, 2009 1:13:13 GMT -6
Here I've made a frame but it isn't even. I drag a guide to the center and then take the rectangular marquee tool and make a selection around the side of the frame I like. I chose Layer>New>Layer via Copy. I deselected and chose Edit>Transform>Flip Horizontal. With the move tool I dragged the frame over until it snapped into place. You'll notice in the picture once I made my copy I threw away the frame layer. Then I linked and merged the layers.
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