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Setting up guidelines

Setting up guidelines - Photoshop Tutorial

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Setting up guidelines

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- In this chapter, we're going to focus on editable text that you can scale to absolutely any size that you like. And Photoshop will render it as pixels on the fly. And along the way, we're going to create what is the beginning of a short story written in 1897 by HG Wells. Now, as usual, we're going to start off with a photographic image from the Dreamstime image library, about which you can learn more and get some great deals at dreamstime.com/deke. All right, I'll make sure the Dreamstime layer is selected here inside the layers panel, and then I'll press the backspace key, or the delete key on the Mac, in order to get rid of it. And we're going to start things off in this movie by setting up some guide lines. And you can do that in a couple of different ways. First, you can go up to the view menu and choose the rulers command in order to bring up a horizontal and vertical ruler, as we're seeing at the top and left side of…

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