MEASURING DISTANCES

KC
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KEV_CHAMBERLAIN
Jan 26, 2007
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I may be overlooking something obvious here but…I know how to do this in Illustrator but not in Photoshop.

If I have a piece of artwork which is eg 100mm across. I want to put five equal rectangles across that artwork side by side. I know that means I need 5 x 20mm rectangles. How do I measure and set that up in Pshop?
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Ed_Hannigan
Jan 26, 2007
Using the Rectangle Marquee, in the Options Bar set it to Fixed Size 5 mm by 20 mm. That will give you the correct size selection which you can position, fill with color, stroke or whatever you need to do.
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Shep123
Jan 26, 2007
Alternatively you can use the info palette (windows > info) to see the width, height, and position as you draw with the rectangular marquee tool.

On Jan 26, 4:11 am, wrote:
I may be overlooking something obvious here but…I know how to do this in Illustrator but not in Photoshop.

If I have a piece of artwork which is eg 100mm across. I want to put five equal rectangles across that artwork side by side. I know that means I need 5 x 20mm rectangles. How do I measure and set that up in Pshop?
KC
KEV_CHAMBERLAIN
Jan 26, 2007
There’s always one little bit of the Photoshop menus which I’d never noticed before.

Its obvious now.

Thanks for that
J
JeffN
Jan 27, 2007
Another option it to go to pref>grids & guides and under Grid, set the drop down to mm, and "Grid Line every" 20 hit OK.
To turn on grids use keyboard short cut…cmd+’ or view>show>grid This will give you 5- 20mm grid lines to follow. The grid can be turned on & off, and used on future doc.

You can then make a selections, etc. and the marque can be left in unconstrained and not locked into the 5x20mm fixed size.
JF
john_findley
Jan 28, 2007
Not directly related to your question, but don’t overlook the Measure tool, hidden beneath the eyedropper.
Comes in handy, sometimes.

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