Tutorial on using Photoshop CS6 Smart Guides

A guide is a line that is used as a reference when you are drawing accurately, and it is displayed in the document screen to easily align the image without participating in the printing process, but it is only an auxiliary function.

To create a reference line

1. Open the ruler. 2. Move the mouse cursor over the horizontal ruler, press the left mouse button down and drag to create a horizontal guide, move the mouse cursor over the vertical ruler, press the left mouse button to the right, and drag to create a vertical guide. As shown in the following illustration:

Tips:

Hold down the ALT key while holding down the left mouse button, drag from the horizontal ruler to create a vertical guide; drag from the vertical ruler to create a horizontal guide.

3. Create guides precisely:

1 Select the View menu, click the "New Guide" command in the Drop-down list, and open the New Guide dialog box. As shown in the following illustration:

2 Select horizontal or vertical in the Orientation box, enter the position of the guides in the Position text box, and then click OK to create the guides exactly.

Tips:

Hold down the SHIFT key and then create a guide so that you can align the guides with the scales on the ruler.

Hide and show guides

1. Select the "View" menu, the mouse pointer to move to "show" above, in the Pop-up submenu click the "Guide line" command, you can remove the left side of the command (√), while hiding the reference line.

2. Select the "View" menu, move the mouse pointer over the "show" above, click on the "Guide" command in the submenu that pops up, and display the reference line at the left of the command (√).

Tips:

If you have not created a guide, the Guide command will become dimmed and unavailable.

Move Guides

1. Click on the Mobile tool in the toolbox. As shown in the following illustration:

2. Move the cursor over the horizontal guide. As shown in the following illustration:

or move the cursor over the vertical guide. As shown in the following illustration:

3. Press the left mouse button to drag, you can move the position of the guide line.

Tips:

Hold down the SHIFT key and then move the guides so that you can align the guides with the scales on the ruler.

Delete Guide Line

1. If you want to delete a reference line:

You can move the mouse cursor over the guide, and then press the left mouse button to drag the Guide outside the document window to remove the guide.

2. If you want to delete all the guides:

You can remove all guides by selecting the View menu and clicking the Clear Guides command in the Drop-down list.

Turn alignment guides on and off

1. Turn on alignment guides:

Select the View menu, move the mouse pointer over "align to" in the Drop-down list, click the "Guide" command in the Pop-up submenu, and then tick (√) on the left of the command to indicate that the Alignment guide command is turned on.

This aligns the guides when you draw selections, paths, trim boxes, slices, or move shapes in your document.

2. Turn off alignment guides:

Select the View menu, move the mouse pointer over "align to" in the Drop-down list, and click the "Guide" command on the Pop-up submenu to remove the check mark (√) on the left of the command, indicating that the Alignment guide command is turned off.

Lock and Unlock guide lines

1. Lock the Guide line:

Select the View menu and click on the "Lock Guides" command in the Drop-down list to mark the left of the command (√) and lock the guides.

Once the guides are locked, you cannot edit, move, and so on.

2. Unlock the Guide line:

Select the View menu and click on the "Lock Guides" command in the Drop-down list to remove the check mark (√) on the left side of the command, while understanding the lock on the guide line.

The setting of the Guide line

1. Select the Edit menu, move the mouse pointer over preferences, and click the guides, grids, and slices command on the Pop-up submenu to open the Preferences dialog box. As shown in the following illustration:

2. In the Guides option group, you can reset the guides ' colors and styles.

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