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Jairo Equipamentos
Jairo Equipamentos
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February 21, 2023
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Aligning an image containing a grid with the photoshop grid

  • February 21, 2023
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I have an image that I shot on a panel, the panel has a grid on it

Is there a (hopefully easy) way to align the grid from the image to the photoshop grid

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Correct answer Myra Ferguson

For deformed or rotated images, you could use Edit > Transform > Distort or Edit > Transform > Rotate. You can also use modifier keys with Edit > Free Transform to distort (Ctrl on Windows, Command on macOS) and move your cursor along the edge/corner until it changes to a double-sided, bent arrow to indicate that you can rotate it.

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Conrad_C
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Conrad_CCommunity Expert
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February 21, 2023

With the layer selected in the Layers panel, choose Edit > Free Transform, then drag a corner handle to resize the layer until the grid matches up. To resize from the layer center, hold down the Alt key. If it is not already resizing proportionally, also hold down the Shift key.

 

    Jairo Equipamentos
    Jairo EquipamentosAuthor
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    February 21, 2023

    Yes but normally the images come in different rotations and some are even deformed, so normal scaling doesnt work for me

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    Conrad_C
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    Conrad_CCommunity Expert
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    February 21, 2023

    Then when the Free Transform bounding box is active, you can also do the following:

     

    Instead of dragging a corner handle, position the pointer near a corner handle so that it changes to a rotation pointer, then drag that to match rotation.

     

    To deform the rectangle to match the grid, while dragging a handle also hold down the Ctrl key. So for example, if you wanted to deform from the center, drag a handle while holding down Ctrl (to deform) and Alt (to transform from center).

     

     

    You can hold down any combination of Alt, Shift, and Ctrl depending on what you need.  If you don’t want to remember all the keys, then just select the specific kind of transformation you want from the Edit > Transform submenu (Scale, Rotate, Skew, Distort, Perspective, Warp…), and that will determine what the handles do for you. Warp allows nonlinear distortions.

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