Preserved Topic: Centering a selection (Page 1 of 1)

After all my experience with PS6, I have never properly aligned a selection.

All's I need to know is: how to center a selection (horizontally and vertically).

Anyone help me out?

As in making a selection in the center?

pull up the rulers and drag a horizontal and vertical line to the center of the screen, when they cross, that is the center. get ya selection tool, click on that spot they cross holding down shift+alt and drag your selection out from the center...

or is that not what you mean?

Or, if you already have a selection, go to Select > Transform Selection.


Then at the top along the toolbar you'll see options to move the selection to specific coordinates. All you have to do is figure out what coordinates are at the center of your document....

A selection will snap to Guides -- borders and center.

If it doesn't, you've got version 6.0 and you should mess with [view>snap to]

edit: yes, you said you had 6.0. overlooked that part.



[This message has been edited by mahjqa (edited 11-14-2001).]

If you've got an irregular selection already made, and you want to center it in the screen, follow the steps of bringing up the rulers (ctrl/command-R), then drag a guide to the center vertically and then another hotrizontally. Now, using the selection tool, click inside your current selection and drag it towards the guides. It will snap to them at it's far right, far left, far top, far bottom and exact center.

If you know the dimensions of your image, why mess with guides.

Say you have a 400x400 image. Make your selection then go to Select --> Transform Selection.

This is what your toolbar will look like:



That will center the center of your selection at 200px by 200px.

Pretty easy.

Another method is to select the entire image.. ctrl-A and then make sure the layer containing the part you want centered is active. Then go to >Layer>Align Selection> Center Vertical/ Center Horizontal.

Hope that helps.

huh... there are actually quite a few ways to center things... cool...

NSS... EyeZ wins the prize...

Well thanks people.