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Understanding Smart Guides
               As you dragged the layer in the
             PHOTOSHOP FOUNDATIONS  appearing in different locations.                    We dragged the
               previous exercise, you might have
               noticed a series of pink lines
               These lines are a function of
                                                                                         Green Circle layer
               Smart Guides, which make it
                                                                                         with the Move tool.
               easier to align layer content to
               other layers or to the overall
               canvas.
               Smart Guides are active by
               default, but you can toggle them
               on and off in the View>Show
               submenu.
                                            Smart Guides identify   Smart Guides identify
                                           the center and edges of   the center and edges of
                                            content on other layers.  the overall canvas.







                                                                                         The Green Circle
                                                                                         layer is selected.











                                               Press Command/Control and hover
                                                over an object to find the distance
                                                between it and the selected layer.





















                                                  Press Command/Control and hover over the
                                                    canvas find the distance between the
                                                  selected layer content and the canvas edges.









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