Guides are nonprinting lines that appear over the image in the document window. They are very helpful in aligning image elements. You can place guides at any position in the document window and easily reposition and remove them. If you enable the Snap to Ruler Ticks option, the guides you create will land precisely on the tick marks. Each guide also has options that let you change its color and lock it so that it can’t be dragged.
| To show or hide guides |
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| • | Choose Canvas  Guides Show Guides or Hide Guides. |
| To create a guide |
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| 1 . | Show the rulers and the guides. |
| 2 . | Click in a ruler at the position where you want to place the guide. |
| A guide appears in the document window and a triangular marker appears in the ruler. |
A black triangle marks the guide’s position in the ruler.
| To reposition a guide |
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| • | Drag the guide’s marker to any point of the ruler. |
You can also double-click the guide’s marker to display the Guide Options dialog box, and enter a value in the Guide Position box.
| To enable the Snap to Ruler Ticks option |
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| • | Choose Canvas Rulers Snap to Ruler Ticks. |
| To set a guide’s color |
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| 1 . | Double-click the guide’s marker. |
| 2 . | In the Guide Options dialog box, click the Guide Color chip, and choose a color. |
| To change the color of all guides, enable the Same Color for All Guides check box. |
| To lock or unlock a guide |
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| 1 . | Double-click the guide’s marker to display the Guide Options dialog box. |
| 2 . | Enable or disable the Lock Guide check box. |
| To remove a guide |
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| • | Drag the guide’s marker off the edge of the document window. |
| To remove all guides |
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| 1 . | Double-click the guide’s marker to display the Guide Options dialog box. |
| 2 . | Click Delete All Guides. |
