Tip &
Tricks: Guides, Grids & Rulers
in PSP
I don’t know
about you, but when I first
opened PSP, there were no
rulers, or grids. It was a
constant guessing game as to how
big I was making something, or
where I was cutting, pasting or
moving an object. Placement
wasn’t such a big issue to me
back then, as I wasn’t into
creating to scale, and it didn’t
matter if my patterned paper was
symmetrical or not. I wasn’t
creating to impress anyone, I
was creating to learn.
As I eased
into the digital scrapbooking
world I soon found myself
painstakingly trying to
accomplish these wonderfully
symmetrical patterned papers
that I had seen so many times.
I just couldn’t get the
placement right, and nothing
every seemed to look as good as
that of my colleagues.
After
numerous tries I inadvertently
stumbled across the
“Change Grid, Guide & Snap
Properties” under the
view menu, along with
“Snap to Grid” & “Rulers”
functions all found under “VIEW”
in your PSP menu. (If your using
another program, and don’t know
if you have these functions, or
where to find the, check out
your help.) I had never known
the use for these functions, and
passed them off as something
only a professional graphic
artist used. I was astonished.
I activated the functions, and
found a ‘mesh’ of guides that I
can use to symmetrically place
an item and arrange them to be
evenly spaced, without the
painful frustration of
‘eyeballing’ it or hours of
trial and error. Rulers allowed
me to see where I was starting
and ending in my cropping and
selections. It was one of my
most eye opening moments of
learning in PSP.
My suggestion
to you is to search your
program, if you not already
using the grids & guides offered
by your program, and see what
capabilities your specific
program has. It’s a wonderful
tool that I know I had
overlooked for too long. I know
this may seem quite ‘medial’ to
those who have been using their
program for years, and passed
this as being common knowledge
but I wanted to share this,
because for me it wasn’t common
knowledge, it was quite
accidental I even discovered it.
Anyway, I
hope this passes at least one
person’s eyes that will find it
useful to know about this
feature, and is of some help to
their world of scrapping!
Take Care &
Happy Scrapping.
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