Snapping to canvas center – CS2

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Feb 2, 2007
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Is it possible to make the center of the Photoshop canvas snap-to- able? I would like to be able to use the canvas center as a point of reference but apparently Smart Guides do not snap to it and even placing guides is a pain in that the only way I have found to center them is to use the ‘info’ palette. Does anyone know of a way to easily locate the center of the canvas without using the grid and preferably without using guides?

Thanks,
Ron
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Derek Fountain
Feb 2, 2007
Is it possible to make the center of the Photoshop canvas snap-to- able? I would like to be able to use the canvas center as a point of reference but apparently Smart Guides do not snap to it and even placing guides is a pain in that the only way I have found to center them is to use the ‘info’ palette. Does anyone know of a way to easily locate the center of the canvas without using the grid and preferably without using guides?

No, but when I needed to do that I wrote an action that put 2 guides (one horizontal, one vertical) at 50%.

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Andrew Morton
Feb 2, 2007
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Is it possible to make the center of the Photoshop canvas snap-to- able? I would like to be able to use the canvas center as a point of reference but apparently Smart Guides do not snap to it and even placing guides is a pain in that the only way I have found to center them is to use the ‘info’ palette. Does anyone know of a way to easily locate the center of the canvas without using the grid and preferably without using guides?

Even setting the origin of the rulers to the centre of the canvas doesn’t help.

For guides, you can enter a position 50% to get them half way.

Andrew
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ronviers
Feb 2, 2007
On Feb 2, 3:31 am, Derek Fountain wrote:
Is it possible to make the center of the Photoshop canvas snap-to- able? I would like to be able to use the canvas center as a point of reference but apparently Smart Guides do not snap to it and even placing guides is a pain in that the only way I have found to center them is to use the ‘info’ palette. Does anyone know of a way to easily locate the center of the canvas without using the grid and preferably without using guides?

No, but when I needed to do that I wrote an action that put 2 guides (one horizontal, one vertical) at 50%.

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Derek Fountain on the web athttp://www.derekfountain.org/

Hi, Derek,
Very good suggestion, I have to think in terms of Actions more often. I saved it as a part of my normal workspace.

Thanks,
Ron
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ronviers
Feb 2, 2007
On Feb 2, 3:36 am, "Andrew Morton"
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Is it possible to make the center of the Photoshop canvas snap-to- able? I would like to be able to use the canvas center as a point of reference but apparently Smart Guides do not snap to it and even placing guides is a pain in that the only way I have found to center them is to use the ‘info’ palette. Does anyone know of a way to easily locate the center of the canvas without using the grid and preferably without using guides?

Even setting the origin of the rulers to the centre of the canvas doesn’t help.

For guides, you can enter a position 50% to get them half way.
Andrew

Hi Andrew,
Somehow I never noticed the New Guide option. I learned early, probably by accident, that new guides could be added by dragging from the rulers and never tried another way.
Thanks for the tip,
Ron
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John Boy
Feb 2, 2007
An aside – if you are working with layers and shapes you have several Align features available.

See Layer – Align

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