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Show Rulers in Photoshop CS6

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You're watching VisiHow. In this video, we are going to show you how to view rulers on Photoshop CS6 on Windows 7.

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In our example, we already have a document open, which we can see by the selected tab at the top left of the screen
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We also have a second document open, as indicated by the other tab at the top left
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The layers are shown on the right-hand side
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Click on "View" on the menu at the top of the screen
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Then go down and select "Rulers", which is about 2/3 of the way down on the menu
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Now, around the edge of our work space is a horizontal and a vertical ruler
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Sometimes the side menu bar will be on the left side of the ruler
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We can drag that menu and move it to the right side if desired, so we can work more freely
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We can also hide the ruler again by selecting "View" at the top
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Then we'll click on "Rulers" again to hide them
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Let's do that same thing again to make the "Rulers" visible, and we'll demonstrate a quick trick
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When we have our rulers visible, rather than use a grid, if we don't need anything that detailed, we can click and hold down on the ruler (such as the top horizontal one)
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Then to add a horizontal line, we can drag that down from the ruler
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Do this as many times as desired and drop a horizontal line wherever on the canvas
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This can be helpful if a complete grid is not being used. We do go over the use of the grid in another video on this website.
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We can do the same from the vertical ruler as well, by just clicking and dragging one line at a time from that side ruler
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We can't just get rid of the lines with the click of a button, but instead have to click and drag each one back to the ruler
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This is a VisiHow video, and we've just shown you how to show rulers on Photoshop CS6 on Windows 7
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If you have any questions or comments, feel free to add them to the section below, and we'll do our best to get back to you.
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