Laser guides for an X-ray device are disclosed in which a pair of laser projecting means are rotatably affixed to any X-ray device, either portable or stationary, such that the beams from the projecting means project toward the X-ray receptor and inward toward a line between the receptor and the X-ray device, and the laser beams cross at a particular location such that when the X-ray device is moved closer to or further from the X-ray receptor the laser beams cross when the X-ray device is at the optimum distance from the X-ray image receptor and the X-ray beam is centered upon the X-ray image receptor.