

I am going to explain each and every options one by one. This options generally look very much different from the traditional option bar to a novice. Below is a screenshot of the option bar that you should see if you are using Photoshop CC. Like all other Photoshop tools, this tool also comes with its own options/settings. Now let’s move to Section 2 where we will deal with all the advanced techniques that we can do with Ruler Tool. Simple, isn’t it? This tool is pretty much simpler as compared to most of the Photoshop tools.

The distance between the two pixels is approximately 357 pixels. Now to measure the distance between two points, all you need to do is hold down your left mouse click at the start point and then drag your mouse to the end point and then release your mouse button.Īnd here is the result now. To activate this tool, all you need is to grab it from the tool panel of press Shift+I again and again until it comes. Section 1 deals with the basic of this tool while Section 2 deals with the advanced use of this tool.

This tutorial is divided into two sections. This tool is kind of hidden and does not get enough popularity if compared with it’s importance.įor the whole tutorial, I’ll be talking about the Ruler Tool and its importance. You can use the grid tool for this but Photoshop also provides a tool that is exclusively built to measure the distance. It can be the distance between two buttons while designing a website, size of a waist and so on. Many times in Photoshop you need to measure the distance between two points.
