Centre objects in Photoshop CS6 with precision

By:  | Published: November 27, 2020

There may come a time when you need to centre objects in Photoshop. You could eyeball it, but that isn't very precise. You could use a mathematical equation to figure out the centre, but that's too much thinking — especially when you can get Photoshop to do it for you. It's easy to centre objects in Photoshop CS3-Cs6 with just a few clicks of the 'Alignment' buttons.

How to centre objects in Photoshop

  1. In your Photoshop Document, choose Window > Layers to display the Layers panel.
  2. If one of the layers you wish to convert is the Background layer, double-click on that layer to rename and convert it to a regular layer (e.g. "Layer O"). Click OK.
  3. Select the layer you want to center and then select the background layer by clicking Shift+Click. If the background layer is not a contiguous layer (right next to the layer you wish to align) then you'll need to click Control+Click the layers within the Document Window instead.
  4. With the layers selected, click on the 'Move Tool' in the Tools panel.
  5. Click on the 'Align Vertical Centres' button on the tool options bar to align the vertical centre pixels on the active and linked layers.
  6. Click on the 'Align Horizontal Centres' button to align the horizontal centre pixels on the active and linked layers.

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