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Adobe Photoshop Help
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To place a guide:
1 If the rulers are not visible, choose View > Rulers.
Note: For the most accurate readings, view the image at 100% magnification or use the
Info palette.
2 Create a guide:
(Photoshop) Choose View > New Guide. In the dialog box, select Horizontal or Vertical
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orientation, enter a position, and click OK.
(ImageReady) Choose View > Create Guides. In the dialog box, specify guide options
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and click OK.
Drag from the horizontal ruler to create a horizontal guide.
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Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS), and drag from the vertical ruler to create
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a horizontal guide.
Drag from the vertical ruler to create a vertical guide.
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Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS), and drag from the horizontal ruler to
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create a vertical guide.
(Photoshop) Hold down Shift and drag from the horizontal or vertical ruler to create a
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guide that snaps to the ruler ticks.
The pointer changes to a double-headed arrow
To move a guide:
1 Select the move tool
activate the move tool. (This option does not work with the hand
2 Position the pointer over the guide (the pointer turns into a double-headed arrow).
3 Move the guide:
Drag the guide to move it.
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Change the guide from horizontal to vertical, or vice versa, by holding down Alt
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(Windows) or Option (Mac OS) as you click or drag the guide.
(Photoshop) Align the guide with the ruler ticks by holding down Shift as you drag the
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guide. The guide will snap to the grid if the grid is visible and View > Snap To > Grid is
selected.
To lock all guides:
Choose View > Lock Guides.
To remove guides from the image:
Do one of the following:
To remove a single guide, drag the guide outside the image window.
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To remove all guides, choose View > Clear Guides.
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To turn snapping to guides on or off:
Choose View > Snap To > Guides. (See
To turn snapping to the grid on or off (Photoshop):
Choose View > Snap To > Grid. (See
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