With almost every new version of the toolbar"Photoshop", the evolution of which can be traced in the figure below, was replenished with new buttons or undergone minor transformations for ease of use.
Each tool is worth pointing to it.cursor, kindly "introduce myself", highlighting the hint, though if you have a tick in the "Settings" dialog box (in the "Edit" menu at the bottom), you can enable "Show hints".
Beginner to comprehend the wisdom of geniusthe user probably already has an idea about the role of each tool, but it also happens that when there is a need, for example, in elementary alignment of an object on a canvas, we, not knowing how to turn on the ruler in Photoshop, use the cursor to try in vain with the cursor "hear" the hint.
The Photoshop Editor would not be Photoshop ifI could not offer any team to perform in different ways. This also applies to the "Rulers" command in the "View" menu, by selecting which, we will "attach" the rulers in the workspace from the top and left. If you are too lazy to reach out to the menu with your mouse, you can press Ctrl + R to call up the rulers. With the same combination, they hide.
Having figured out how to turn on the ruler in Photoshop, another user faces another problem, not knowing how to change the scale of division.
By default, we will offer "centimeter"rulers, but by right-clicking on any ruler and in any place, you can select pixels, millimeters, inches, points, peaks (at the peak of 12 points) or percentages.
From both rulers, as from the sleeve of a magician, you canuse the mouse to pull out in an unlimited number of guide lines, which can also be called up using the "New Guide ..." command in the "View" menu. But if the rulers are not included, the guides will be fixed. Guides do not tolerate keyboard shortcuts Ctrl + H and instantly disappear.
On the toolbar under the eyedropper buttonhides the "namesake" coordinate rulers framing the workspace. The tool "Ruler" in "Photoshop" is used to determine the coordinates of the starting point of the measured segment, measure the width and height of the object, the length of the line and calculate the angle of inclination.
By clicking at the right point, from it, without releasingthe key is pulled out like a tape measure line, following its parameters in the settings bar at the top. When you click again, the new line is stretched, and the old one disappears. The line (ruler) can be dragged and twisted, holding the mouse both at the crosses at both ends, and at the line itself.
In the settings panel at the top, X and Y are the coordinates of the starting point, W and B are the width (horizontal distance) and height relative to the starting point, Y is the angle relative to the center line, and L1 is the length of the segment between two points.
If, by pressing Alt, bring the cursor to the crossthe starting point, it will take the shape of a protractor, indicating that you can draw a line at an angle to the stretched ruler, and this angle will be defined (L2) on the settings panel.
The cursor above the "By measurement" button causesnot everyone understandable hint "Calculate the data of the tool" Ruler "on the scale of measurements." By ticking this function, we confirm the use of the unit of measure for the rulers selected in the settings (Edit> Settings> Units of measure and rulers).
You can also choose the units of measurement in the panel options on the Info panel by clicking the small triangle in the upper right corner.
As already noted, all the tools in Photoshopcan be opened in two or even three ways. In this sense, our "roulette" is not deprived of attention, since you can turn on the ruler in Photoshop by pressing and holding Shift + I until the ruler icon appears on the "Eyedropper" button. Similarly, the ruler will hide itself, replacing on the button with the icon of the next below tool “Comment”, or it will be removed at the far right on the settings panel with the button “Delete”.
The ruler can also be used for straightening.Images. To do this, you need to stretch the ruler on the picture, specifying the straightening horizon for it, and click the "Align Layer" button with the prompt "Align the active layer to create a ruler level". At the same time, you will sacrifice parts of the image that went beyond the document (Photoshop will cut them), but if Align Layer with the Alt key pressed, everything will remain in place, as you can see by expanding the canvas (Image> Canvas Size) , or by turning on "Move", drag the hidden parts into the field of view.
As the modernization of "Photoshop" graduallyenriched with new features and capabilities, but such a dramatic, qualitative leap, as in the transition from CS5 to CS6 (27 points of change) was not throughout the history of the program. However, the answer to the question of how to turn on the ruler in Photoshop CS6 remained unchanged. The same tick in the "Rulers" line in the "View" menu, the same combination Ctrl + R, and in the same way you can grab the square at the top left (where the rulers converge) and, dragging down, select a new reference point in the image. Where we release the mouse button, in that place there will be zeros of both rulers, and you can return them "to their homeland" by double clicking on the same square in the left corner from the top.
And in conclusion - about one rare, but stillmisunderstanding. Another user, having started the editor, starts to “lay out the tools”, trying to reach the rulers, but none of them will be done, because you can turn on the ruler in Photoshop, like all other tools, only by opening or creating a document.
