09 September 2007

Photoshop: Creative Use of the Measure Tool

Photoshop's 'Measure' tool, located on the Eyedropper toolbar fly-out (Keyboard Shortcut: 'I'), has more usefulness than first meets the eye. Drawing a measurement line not only provides the length of the line drawn, but also provides the angle of the line on the options palette.
As an added bonus, Photoshop pre-enters this angle value into the 'Rotate Arbitrary' command (Image->Rotate Canvas->Arbitrary...), saving the added step of entering this value into the dialog when you need to straighten an image.

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