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Easy way to find the exact center of a photoshop layer

2 January 2009 110 views No Comment

We’ve set up this tutorial to show you an easy little way to find the absolute (true) center of a layer or image in photoshop. There are a few other ways of doing this, but this is a pretty quick an easy way we figured we’d share with you.

  1. With your image already open, (click) on the “Marquee Tool” from the side bar
  2. Click on the Marquee Tool

  3. Now (click) on “Select > All” from the File Menu (or just hit CTRL-A or APPLE-A).
  4. Select all from the menu bar

  5. Right click on the image (within the selected area) and choose “Transform Selection”. You will notice there will now be a circle in the middle of your selected area, that is the center of the image/layer.
  6. Transform Selection

  7. Click (and hold) on the Ruler from the left side and drag the guide line to the center circle (it should snap to it). Then do the horizontal ruler (top).
  8. Vertical and Horizontal Guides

  9. You now have the “true” center of the image :-)

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