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Smarter Smart Guides

Smarter Smart Guides - Photoshop Tutorial

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Smarter Smart Guides

- One area where Photoshop has evolved a lot in recent versions is in the design area, so features designed for designers. Now, I'm not a designer, but I can appreciate a lot of the benefits of these, and I think one of the most pronounced is Smart Guides. So to look at Smart Guides, let's just create a new document. I'm just going to hit CMD + N, and I chose to make mine square, it really doesn't matter what size it is. And the first thing I'm gonna do is select my shape tool and I just want to add a square. Now in order to keep it square, I'm going to hold down the shift key while I draw the shape. Okay, I've got a black square, I see all of my Properties here, I'm not gonna change anything there, although you obviously have more control than ever And now I'm gonna hit the V key, which is going to select the Move tool. And with the Move tool selected, I want to make sure it is on Auto Select, and Layer, so that I can move this around simply by clicking on it, and as I move it around…

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