Photoshop Tip: Aligning An Object

Posted by Pixelhead

Last week I posted several tips in my Flickr and Photoshop Tip post, which was also my first Graphics/photo Thursday post. I had quite a few good tips from readers in response to the post.

The best being the tip from Dennis of Santorini Views, a blog about the Greek Island of Santorini. Not a good blog for Lizzie and I to be looking at, since we both are itching to travel. Thanks to Dennis’s new Santorini blog, we have added the little Greek island to our travel wish list.

Anyway the Photoshop tip that Dennis left in his comment was seriously much easier to use than the one that I posted. So here it is in step by step.

Using the Measure tool to align to Horizontally or Vertically.

select picture by going to file, select open and navigate to the file you have your pictures stored.
Right click on the eye dropper in the Photoshop palette toolbar.
Choose the Measure Tool, which should be the last option.
Left Click and hold on one corner of the object you would like to align horizontally or vertically.
Still holding the left button down, drag the cursor to the other corner of the edge of the object. You should see a line on the objects edge.
Release the left mouse button.
Go to Image at the top of the Photoshop screen. Go down to Rotate Canvas and then choose Arbitrary in the drop down menu.
A little box will appear, which will rotate the picture a number of degrees clockwise or counter clockwise. The appropriate box should be automatically chosen. click OK. The Photo should now be rotated so that the object is now aligned horizontally or vertically.
I then crop out the desired section of the photo, but photo cropping is another photoshop tip.

Let me know if this tip has been helpful, or let me know of any tips that you use which I could add to my Photoshop tool belt. Thanks again to Dennis of Santoriniviews.com for this Photoshop tip.

Written by Pixelhead on October 11th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Mike C
#1. October 13th, 2007, at 11:26 PM.

Are you a photoshop wiz? I have been trying to design graphic header and I have had a hard time figuring stuff out with photoshop. If I have any questions would you mind if I asked you?

Pixelhead
#2. October 14th, 2007, at 1:54 PM.

Mike, I aspire to be a Photoshop whiz, but have a very limited knowledge. Lizzie my wife, has a degree in multimedia design, so she is pretty good with Photoshop, so if I have a question, I ask her.
If you have a question, please feel to ask, I might be able to make a post out of your question.

Mike C
#3. October 17th, 2007, at 5:12 AM.

Well I hope to be getting the full version here in the next couple weeks. I have been using the demo online, so I will surely ask you any questions I might have if I need help. Thanks,

Pixelhead
#4. October 17th, 2007, at 2:31 PM.

It really is a cool program with lots of bells and whistles. I am looking forward to getting more familiar with all of its capabilities.

Dennis
#5. November 30th, 2007, at 12:13 PM.