setting diagonal guides in photoshop?

ok, i'm working on a piece where i'm trying to match some text to the perspective of a sign and it's caused me to do some looking for something i haven't been able to find...is there a way to create some sort of a diagonal guide or grid in ps?

yes, i know i can use the line tool to draw some guidelines, etc., but the ability to create some sort of perspective lines/grid seems like something that should be very basic in a program this powerful. i've searched thru the help and can't find a thing, any thoughts?

chris

draw everything straight and then when you are finnished flip everything 45 degrees :P?
Haven't seen a tool or option for that...

yeah, that's what i've been doing, converted to raster and am using the perspective tool to match the sign. it's not quite an exact angle tho, being able to match up some sort of grid to the perspective of the sign would be great.

chris

Try making a gird using the tile filter and just rotate the grid layer.

its not that i can't create some sort of background, more that it seems like there should be an easier way of doing it. just rotating a grid wouldn't work anyway, the photo has two vanishing points for the sign. by the time i lined a grid up i might as well have just done the same thing to the text

i've been told that cs2 actually has some perspective function/capabilities/etc. but i'm on cs so i've got no idea.

chris

Yes it's true that CS2 has a perspective grid drawing a thingamabibby.

As for your original problem (and excuse me if I am being thick) why not make the text transparent or semi and then free transform it? It will be in vector format still and be editible.

As for perspective guidelines, I'm guessing your'e screwed (although I too welcome a sensible solution), I use a stupid and convoluted method, I will detail it for your amusement I use the measure tool and then tract that line with the pen tool (can skip the measure tool in most images) and then on my new canvas drag and drop the pen tool line and enlarge/lessen as needed. Ludicrous I know, effective? Probably not ;)

basically what i did, except that the text had to be rasterized in order to do a perspective transform on it. your way would work, i just ended up eyeballing it for the most part. but yeah, a bit convoluted

chris