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Adding Rulers to the Workspace
When designing print ads, brochures, or book covers, it is often helpful to be able to measure
aspects of the layout. Figure 46 shows how to add rulers to your workspace — View >
Rulers .
When I submit a Cover Design for Publication, it has to meet certain criteria. One of those
requirements is that I can't have any text within a half-inch of any edge. Photoshop has a
nice tool for dealing with this restriction. It is shown in Figure 47 .
When the rulers are present in a Workspace, you can drag horizontal and vertical lines to
your image by clicking inside a ruler and dragging to the image. When the line that you are
dragging touches the edge of your document, it will begin displaying the distance from the
edge. This feature allows you to place guidelines an exact distance from each edge. For ac-
curacy to .001 inch, you need to enlarge the edges quite a bit. In most cases, I only need to
be certain that my guidelines are at least a half inch from the edge. I can usually get within
1/16 of an inch without zooming in. For my book covers, that is good enough.
To work with a new book cover, I drag guidelines ( Figure 47 ) onto the new blank page
by clicking inside the rulers and dragging toward the open file. I make them a half inch
from the edges. The file that I use is 8.75 inches wide by 11.75 inches high, so the vertical
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