Feature Request: Set Ruler Origin Location in Photoshop

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January 8, 2020
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I'd love to see an option in preferences under Units and Rulers to set the Ruler Origin (0,0) to be in a different location than the top left corner of the artboard, either on a document by document basis, or as a default - maybe with a toggle. A 3x3 grid of radio button selections such as top left, middle left, bottom left; top center, middle center, bottom center; top right, middle right, bottom right would be ideal, but a drop down list would work also. This would save having to zoom waaaaayyy in to the appropriate location and dragging the corner box of the ruler to (hopefully) line up with the exact pixel you're aiming for on each new artboard/file.

If there's already a simple way to do this that I'm unaware of, I'd love to know what it is!

Thanks!

mscureman

Correct answer mscureman

Thanks for the feedback, kstohlmeyer! I knew about dragging the upper left corner, but didn't know about the Shift key modifier. Helpful!

Also, I submitted this as an "Idea" on the feedback forum here:

Set Ruler Origin Location in Preferences, New Document Dialog or Menu

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

A similar topic here: Feature Request: Set Origin Point

mscuremanAuthor

Inspiring

I'd love to have an option to set where the 0,0 point is for the X and Y axes. Top Left is fine for many projects, but it'd be nice to have, perhaps, a radio button-style interface, either in preferences or in the document properties (or both!), where you had a 3x3 grid of buttons so you could choose to set the reference origin point at the:

Top Left, Top Middle, Top Right

Middle Left, Center, Middle Right

Bottom Left, Bottom Middle, Bottom Right

See attached photo

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

I worked out a wee workaround a few years ago after having problems with free transform step and repeat. I was making a clock face, and because the origin point will not snap to a guide intersection, by the time you'd made your twelve FT rotations the build up of error was causing visible misalignment.

I realsed that while the origin would not snap to a guide interesction, it would snap to a pixel location, so the answer was to place the guides and drag the grid zero to the guide intersection, (that does snap). Then when using FT rotate, Alt drag the origin close to 0,0 and then correct it in the Options bar. If you then use step and repeat 12 times, the last one will align perfectly with the first.