Guide lines that are not vertical or horizontal. Can it be done?

[mickledore]

As the tilte really. Guide lines in CS6 are either horizontal or vertical. If I want a guide line at an angle is there a way of setting one up?

 

[zendog]

Can you not just rotate the image?

 

[admirable]

Can you not just rotate the image?

That's what I would do

 

[mickledore]

Could do. But I need two lines at the same time.

 

[Phil V]

Just draw some lines on a new layer.

 

[Nod]

Only 1/2 in jest. Chinagraph pencil on your monitor?

 

[Craig_85]

Just draw some lines on a new layer.

This, create new layer and draw lines.

What are you trying to achieve out of interest?

 

[redsnappa]

Guide lines that are not vertical or horizontal

The word you are looking for is diagonal.

 

[G-Slev]

If this is for cropping and you have lightroom, the O key cycles through the crop overlays when you are in the crop tool.

 

[Graham W]

If this is for cropping and you have lightroom, the O key cycles through the crop overlays when you are in the crop tool.

Bloody hell. So it does!

 

[G-Slev]

I learned that from Antony Morganti's tutorials last night

 

[mickledore]

The word you are looking for is diagonal.

I thought of that but diagonals run from corner to corner, don't they? I don't want that.

 

[mickledore]

This, create new layer and draw lines.

What are you trying to achieve out of interest?

I'm trying to replicate an object and make it smaller so that it appears to be further away than the original. I'd like to do this thre or four times so I need to have some guides to ensure evenness.

Perspective effect.

 

[mickledore]

If this is for cropping and you have lightroom, the O key cycles through the crop overlays when you are in the crop tool.

Yes it does, thank you, but it's not quite what I want and I need it in Photoshop anyway.

 

[Martin Clay]

I'm trying to replicate an object and make it smaller so that it appears to be further away than the original. I'd like to do this thre or four times so I need to have some guides to ensure evenness.

Perspective effect.

Use the Vanishing Point filter, alt+ctrl+V. Create a plane and then clone within that plane.

 

[mickledore]

Use the Vanishing Point filter, alt+ctrl+V. Create a plane and then clone within that plane.

Thank you. Looks promising ...if I could get the thing to work properly. Off to search youtube for some instruction!

 

[Graham W]

Use the Vanishing Point filter, alt+ctrl+V. Create a plane and then clone within that plane.

"Vanishing Point". That's it! I've been racking my brains all day trying to remember the term.

 

[ianp5a]

I'm trying to replicate an object and make it smaller so that it appears to be further away than the original. I'd like to do this thre or four times so I need to have some guides to ensure evenness.

Perspective effect.

Beware that each copy would not be identical as they go away in the distance. They get slightly shorter compared to the vanishing lines. And mostly at the far side. But a proper perspective effect tool should take care of that.
If the copies represent a 3D object, the proportions within the copy change too. And would not be managed by the perspective tool.

But maybe nobody will notice.

If anyone remembers Blake's 7. They used a video zoom (2D) effect to simulate the Liberator flying away into the distance with no perspective change. It looked so wrong.
Oops. Now I sound like an utter nerd! Worst effect ever!

 

[mickledore]

I was trying to create the effect in the photo below.
In reality there is only one sculpture, the one on the right, but I wanted to be a bit creative/different.
I simply copied the structure and repositioned it then resized with the Transform tool.
I thought it looked a bit false, and was wondering if there was a better way to achieve the effect.
I posted the image in the X-T1 thread on here and on Flickr. I even put it in some Flickr groups for the area of the sculpture.
Nobody has made a comment. Maybe the story that I spun about the Brexit referendum fooled everybody. Maybe I did a better job than I thought. Maybe nobody could be bothered looking too closely.

Mary's Shells by Frank Yates2010, on Flickr

And no, I never watched Blake's 7!

 

[ianp5a]

And no, I never watched Blake's 7!

Yes. It's probably better not to admit it.