Page Ruler Extension

SlidesYearbook is an Google Innovator that empowers students to design and publish their memory books. It is not necessary to pay a yearbook company massive amounts of money when students have free apps such as Google Slides. In this article, I will explain how to precisely place photos.

As of now Google Slides does not have a way to get the dimensions of the photos. I would love to change that. Until then we have the Chrome Page Ruler extension to view the photograph's precise dimensions in pixels. This is how the extension works.

Repeat the process. Open the extension on the right corner of Chrome. Press the bracket image on the left and activate the element mode. Select the photo to view its height. At 225 pixels, the photo is lower than the picture on the previous page.

Close the extension. I can select the two photos and use the arrows to move both of them at the same time. If I need to move the photos with more precision, I use the shift key and the arrow at the same time.

What if Google Slides had a similar measurement tool? Wouldn't that be awesome?

This innovative project was part of the Google Innovator Academy in Mexico City in December 2016.

Published February 20, 2017.

Updated July 4, 2017.