Easier Way to Evenly Space Layers

So I am playing around with more graphic design type stuff than usual in Photoshop. I started designing a camera viewfinder out of a bunch of vector shapes and you can see in the screenshot what I've got started.

How do I space things evenly across a certain area or layer? I am no stranger to guides and smart guides which I have used a lot, but here is the problem I'm experiencing now (I guess it's not really a "problem", but rather the way I'm doing it now feels unnecessarily tedious). Let's say I want the very left and the very right focus points to be exactly the same distance from the center focus point. Right now what I'm doing to achieve this is moving one focus point to the dead center of the middle circle, then using the move tool I am counting how many shift-arrow nudges I do out to the left or right. Then I will need to grab the other one, move it to the center, and shift-click that same number of times again. Then for the corner focus points, I would have to move each one to the center of the middle ring, then count how many times I go right or left, then up or down after that.

There has to be a much simpler way to do this, right?

Once you have the Move tool selected, there are a bunch of buttons in the toolbar at the top, to evenly spread or space all selected layers. Might take a little bit of fiddling around to get it to do what you want - such as selecting the top five but NOT the bottom three points, spreading out the top five points, then manually moving the bottom three individually to line up.

You could place the first three points in the top left quadrant, then make three copies of those layers and flip them horizontally, vertically, and both.

Sometimes I will use guide lines and the ruler, pull out a calculator to figure out exactly where (in pixels) to put the guide lines, and align everything that way.

Why not use the grid? View>show>grid

this is much easier to do in Illustrator
here is a tutorial for a "step and repeat pattern"
http://blog.smartpress​.com …r-step-and-repeat-banners

You can do "step and repeat" in Ps as well, but for what he's doing I don't know how useful that would be. He could also create one side. Duplicate it and flip it.

Seems like you are making things hard on yourself when you already know about guides, ruler, grid, and snap-to funtions. Also, linking a particular set of layers can be moved as a group. Holding down the Cmd key(I think for Macs) + click on the objects will constrain movement horizontally or vertically.

Thanks for the help, peoples. I ended up making a few hollow, color-stroked rectangles and snapped them to the inside of the white area. Then used those to snap the focus points up against - it worked out really well. Got a bunch lined up and spaced evenly, now just need to create all the little icons for the bottom like the flash arrow, battery symbol etc. This is where I'm at now: