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Grid in Photoshop

Ravi — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:21:23 +0000

A grid is a series of equally spaced horizontal and vertical lines that create a visual matrix.

To Display/ Cancel Grid:
View -> Show -> Grid

Guides in Photoshop

Ravi — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:07:55 +0000

Guides are horizontal or vertital lines that can be placed or positioned anywhere on the image surface. To create guides, enable Rulers.

Vier -> Rulers

Place mouse cursor on the ruler, and drag down to required position.

How to delete a Guide:
Select the guide and drag it out of the image.

Lock Guide:
View -> lock Guides

Guide Preference:
You can change color and style of guides.
Edit -> Preferences -> Guides, Grids & Slica

Rulers in Photoshop

Ravi — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:59:46 +0000

Photoshop can display a horizontal rulers across the top of the screen and a vertical ruler along the left side of the screen.

To display ruler, follow this:
From main menu -> View -> Rulers

You can change ruler unit. Follow this to chnage ruler unit.
Edit -> Preferences -> Units & Rulers

Rulers, Guides and Grids in Photoshop

Ravi — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:47:11 +0000

Rulers, Guides and grids are used to align image content in photoshop. Alignment of visual elements of image is very important to main a cohesive structure of the image. Rulers, Guides and grids can assure the precise measurement and placement of image components.

We will discuss about these in details in coming posts.

Restoring Image to 100%View in Photoshop

Ravi — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:39:24 +0000

This is quick method to restore image to 100% view. Just double click the “Zoom” tool icon in the tool palette.

Another alternative to way to restore 100% view of any image is:
From main menu – > View – > Actual pixel.

Display Modes in Photoshop

Ravi — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:07:39 +0000

There are three display modes in photoshop.

Standard screen Mode
Full Screen Mode with Menu Bars
Full Screen Mode

You can select different display mode from tool palette.

The Navigator in Photoshop

Ravi — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:54:21 +0000

The navigator is a map of the image. Its gives you preview of the image as a thumbnail. Navigator appears as default in right side. If its not appearing, follow this:
Main Menu – > Windows – > Navigator

The navigator tool appear like this:

View Box (red rectangle)shows what is currently displayed in the image windows. And using Zoom slider, you can zoom in and out any particular part of image.

The Zoom Tool in Photoshop

Ravi — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:27:20 +0000

The Zoom tool in photoshop is fast way to take a closer look at the image. Click “zoom” tool from “tool palette”.

Now click or select area of image which you want to zoom. If you want to reduce the size of image, click on negative zoom icon from top menu, and click on the image.

The Notes Tool in Photoshop

Ravi — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:57:41 +0000

Notes tool in photoshop let you attach reminder notes to the image. You can add reminder as written note or as audio recording.

To create a written note:
Right Click on Note tool in the “Tools palette”, and select “Notes Tools”.

Now click on the image, a yellow sticky note will appear.

Enter the information, and click close. To access the information on the note, double click the note icon.

To create an audio note:
You will need a microphone. Right Click on Note tool in the “Tools palette”, and select “Audio Annotation Tools”.

Click on the image. Audio annotation tool dialog box will open.

Click “start” button to start recording and “stop” button to stop recording. To play the audio note, double click the audio icon on the image.

History in Photoshop

Ravi — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:04:48 +0000

The undo option is a single state removal option. But what if you want to edit option from past, say 5 click ago. This is possible through history palette in photoshop. By default the history palette is shown in right side. if you can’t see history palette, follow this.
From menu option -> Window -> History

The history palette will show all your click history. Select the click, and you can edit/ delete that click action.