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Setting up guidelines

Guidelines are vertical or horizontal lines that you can add anywhere in the image window to help you measure, align, and position image components. The guidelines use the same units of measure as the rulers. When you save an image in the Corel PHOTO-PAINT application, the guidelines are saved too.

You can display or hide the guidelines. You can also add, remove, move, and lock guidelines in the image window.

You can have objects and editable areas snap to guidelines, so that when you move an object or editable area to a guideline, the object or editable area automatically aligns to that guideline. You can set the sensitivity of this feature so that the object or editable area snaps when you move within a specific number of pixels of a guideline.

You can change the color of the guidelines to make them stand out against the image background. By default, when you select a guideline, it turns red. When you deselect a guideline, it turns blue.


To display or hide the guidelines

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Click View Photo Paint onestep Setting up guidelines Guidelines.
A check mark beside the menu command indicates that the guidelines are displayed.

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Guidelines displayed.


To add a guideline

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Click View Photo Paint onestep Setting up guidelines Setup Photo Paint onestep Setting up guidelines Guidelines.
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In the Guidelines list of categories, click one of the following:
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Horizontal
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Vertical
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Choose a unit of measure from the list box.
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Type a value that corresponds to a location in the image window.
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Click Add.

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You can also add a guideline by dragging from the horizontal or vertical ruler to the image window.

To remove a guideline

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Click View Photo Paint onestep Setting up guidelines Setup Photo Paint onestep Setting up guidelines Guidelines.
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In the list of categories, click one of the following:
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Horizontal
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Vertical
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Choose a guideline from the list.
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Click Delete.

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You can also remove all horizontal or vertical guidelines in the list by clicking Clear.
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You can also remove individual guidelines by dragging them off the image window.

To move a guideline

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In the toolbox, click the Object pick tool Photo Paint pgx pick tool Setting up guidelines.
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Drag a guideline to a new position in the image window.

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You can also move a guideline by nudging it.

To lock or unlock the guidelines

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Click View Photo Paint onestep Setting up guidelines Lock guidelines.
A check mark displays beside the menu command to indicate the guideline is locked.

To have objects and editable areas snap to the guidelines

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Click View Photo Paint onestep Setting up guidelines Snap to Photo Paint onestep Setting up guidelines Guidelines.

To set the snap sensitivity of the guidelines

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Click Tools Photo Paint onestep Setting up guidelines Options.
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In the Workspace list of categories, click Display.
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Type a value in the Guideline snap tolerance (pixels) box.

To change the color of the guidelines

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Click Tools Photo Paint onestep Setting up guidelines Options.
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In the Workspace list of categories, click Display.
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Open the Guideline color picker, and click a color.

Setting up guidelines