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Use guides and grids

Use guides and grids - Photoshop Tutorial

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Use guides and grids

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The rulers can help you to see the actual dimensions of your document or to set up something in a specific location inside the document and you can either turn them on with a shortcut that's command or control R or you can go to the view menu and turn on rulers from here or you can also use the properties panel there is an icon which you can use to turn it on and off. Now since we are here in the properties panel there is also a drop-down to switch between the available measurements or units so by default mine is set to pixels but I can change this to inches and notice how both the horizontal ruler which is up here on the top so that's the horizontal ruler and the vertical ruler on the left will both update according to these changes so if I change again from inches to centimeters for instance we can see they both update or again if we go back to pixels once again they both updated. We can also change the measurements by right clicking on them and if I change it to inches once again…

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