Quick Align is a Photoshop plugin that lets
you be more productive by spending less time on positioning layers by hand.
It provides
a handful of tools to align your layers, stick them in columns, or rows,
fit them to the canvas size, move them to corners,
swap their positions, or arrange them in circles.
Let's have a look at this in more detail before I start aligning layers
I use this duplicate function to quickly create
two copies of my layout.
The align section covers
all the basic alignment tools Photoshop also has out of the box,
but also lets you, for example, distribute
the space between
evenly or around.
And as mentioned, you can also do things like align it
to the top or align it completely to the center of the document.
If you work with a lot of text,
then this align to baseline function would be a huge timesaver for you.
With just one click, you can align text of any font or font size
as well as other elements to the baseline of the text
You might have noticed that every section here has one
icon featured at the right that gives you quick access to your favorite function,
and you can customize this and the fly out menu
Sometimes when you align
your layers, you don't want them to be on top of each other.
For these cases, you can use the Stack function.
For example, Stack to the left would look like this,
and in the general settings you can customize the gap also.
By the way, all of the functions in this plugin
also work on a specified selection.
So if I rerun this
you can see since I have the Wrap option turned on and there's not enough
space for all elements to fit in, they are wrapping to the next line
I can also toggle on the shrink option,
which will make them fit inside the area.
The next section is actually quite similar to this
because it also lets you fit elements with specific area.
For example, if I click this icon, those three layers will fit
to the document width while also having the specified gap in between.
And if I don't want them to keep as a square
but stretch only in one direction, I can toggle this setting off
and this will look like that.
All right.
Next function is called Move to corners,
and you don't even have
to create a copy of your layer You can just select it, click the button,
and the plugin will move and copy and rotate the layer to every corner.
If you want to keep the respective position
or relative position to the corner here, you can toggle off Move-Fully-Inside
which will keep this position, but still rotate the elements
The next section is quite self-explanatory.
If you want to swap laughs, you can use the swap functions here.
Either swapping just X or Y position
or swapping them completely.
This works for two or multiple layers.
Also, for example one and four,
can be swapped easily.
So the last tool is pretty.
It's a pretty great timesaver
if you build a lot of circular layouts.
Just select your layers, click the icon
and all the layers will be arranged in a circle, which can be then customized.
For example, you can set the radius here
Also, if you don't want your elements
to cover a whole circle, you can specify the range
and also a starting point
If you don't want the elements to point outwards
based on their direct, based on their position in the circle,
you can toggle off rotate elements which will look like this
and by default, all elements
of a circle in general would be positioned at the document center.
If you want to position it at a specific location,
you can choose this Picker icon click anywhere
and the circle will move accordingly.
All right.
This has been Quick Align.
Thank you very much for watching and see you next time.