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Sorry, I wasn't intending to be prickly at all - It wasn't intended to read like that at all. I explicitly added the last line to make it clear I appreciated your advice. I guess it didn't work. :-(...

Albacore, this is not about me creating new artwork, it's about what others have supplied to me.

If they wish to supply artwork as a PSD I am fine with that. I think that you have misunderstood...

So are these sprites where the coordinates are important?

Most clients aren't too picky. Occasionally a client gets huffy if a PSD design isn't reproduced pixel-perfect.

In this case, you are...

Thanks Mike.

My clients supply me their designs in PSD or AI format generally. It would be nice to know precisely, without any eyeballing, where a particular element has been positioned.

I...

Whilst we're on this subject - here's my real example - a UI element.

How can I tell it's exact XY position? Photoshop tells me how big the selection is, but not the position. That seems bizarre...

OK, Mike and Gary, thanks for your patience with me and this dumb question.

The thing that particularly caused me to stumble was that when selecting a layer, the content is shown as selected by...

Gary, this is all about Photoshop - Xara specifically excluded!

The starting point here is an image sitting on a layer in photoshop, displaced from the origin, and the objective is to create a PNG...

I might ( would ) agree it's easier using Xara, but I wanted to know the technique to use with just Photoshop!

I can accomplish the task, but there has to be an easier way than I can do it now.
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I'm no Photoshop user, except in a very mundane sense, so this is a very straightforward question.

Imagine I have a PSD with a document size of 500x500 pixels.

It has one layer, upon which sits...