Adding a Measurements Layer – Hull Profile
Add a new transparent layer to you photoshop file
Add the two extremity guides to get the widest ranges of the hulls width
Now we need to add guides exactly between the current guides to divide each space in half. We’ll use a photoshop trick!
Make sure snap to guides are “on”/checked (View->Snap to->Guides)
Select the rectangular selection tool, and make sure it is set to “New Selection” (see image below)
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Drag a rectangular selection from the one extremity guide to the other the width of the selection doesn’t matter as we are only interested in the distance between the two guides.
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While the selection stays selected (marching ants are visible to indicate the selection), start adding a new guide, dragging it over the selection, when you estimate that you are near the mid-point of the selection start dragging slower and carefully watch as the guide you are adding will at some point snap to the mid-point when you get within it’s snap range.
Now you know the new guide is exactly centred between the two extremity guides.
You can repeat this process and divide the sections in half again and again until you have enough guides that divide the image into the exact same sized sections
