We’ve set up this tutorial to show you an easy little way to find the absolute (true) center of a layer or image in photoshop. There are a few other ways of doing this, but this is a pretty quick an easy way we figured we’d share with you.

1. With your image already open, (click) on the “Marquee Tool” from the side bar

2. Now (click) on “Select > All” from the File Menu (or just hit CTRL-A or APPLE-A).

3. Right click on the image (within the selected area) and choose “Transform Selection”. You will notice there will now be a circle in the middle of your selected area, that is the center of the image/layer.

4. Click (and hold) on the Ruler from the left side and drag the guide line to the center circle (it should snap to it). Then do the horizontal ruler (top).

5. You now have the “true” center of the image

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