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Photoshop: Custom Guides (groupable, colorable, nameable guides)
Hi! I've been thinking this for quite a while, and I know most of the web designers out there have the same need... groupable, colorable, nameable guides.
It's important to use guides. But sometimes it gets a little messy.
What would be perfect is if guides had their own layer-style format. And each group, or layer, had an asigned color. You could turn on and off visibility of specific groups, or just turn them all off by hitting cmd + H, as we do today.
This would make photoshop THE perfect software for web design.
It's important to use guides. But sometimes it gets a little messy.
What would be perfect is if guides had their own layer-style format. And each group, or layer, had an asigned color. You could turn on and off visibility of specific groups, or just turn them all off by hitting cmd + H, as we do today.
This would make photoshop THE perfect software for web design.
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JeffreyTranberry
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Preferences> Guides, Grids & Slices
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roman_weiser
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10 years ago
Have you tried to use Paths as guides? You can use path tool to draw your own, custom guides.
But there is a little problem with it. The displayed Path will take a precedence when attempting Free Transform.
Here's how to 'trick' Photoshop.
Select targeted Layer and select your Path 'guide'. Press cmd-h to hide the path - initiate Free Transform on targeted Layer - press cmd-h to view path again - continue Free Transform on the targeted Layer while viewing the paths as your guide.
A little work around, but an excellent way to follow precise custom guides - without guides! ;)
I hope this helps ;)
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edward_tuescher
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10 years ago
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Photoshop: Enable guides to be placed in a layer set.
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harald_michael_m_ller
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10 years ago
Colored guides
Of course in the ideal case, we would be able to color/recolor them anytime.
But even a simplified version would help: having 2 or 3 standard colored guides and creating them holding an additional key. Hence our guides would look as currently, but holding down CTR while creation we would obtain the second color and pressing ALT instead would lead to the third color. I suppose that 3 colors would be able to answer the most of our needs.
Group and delete guides
Do we currently double click a guide, then the preferences dialog appears. I suggest to open a guide manager instead, when we hold down CTR or ALT while double clicking. Photoshop would list there the guides and allow them to be grouped or deleted.
Thanks, Michael
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ashley_mclaughlin
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10 years ago
These improvements would greatly improve my Adobe experience.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Smart Guide Improvements.
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david_eason
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118 Points
9 years ago
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Guide Template and Different angles guide.
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lickybuay
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62 Points
9 years ago
Being able to change color / group them into folders (show / hide). In this way we can differentiate and segment.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Customize guide lines.
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anna_willoughby
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9 years ago
It would be great if there was a way of saving and swapping out sets of guides in Photoshop, so one can avoid cluttering up and confusing oneself with dozens of guidelines all over the screen.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Saving Multiple Sets of Guides.
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joshua_withers
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9 years ago
Sometimes there are guides for alignment and other guides for cropping.
Please add the ability to create guides of different color on the same document? It would help organize all the blue lines currently on my files.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Photoshop: Guides in different colors on same document?.
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emily_dunn_3134743
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102 Points
9 years ago
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Photoshop: Is there a way to save guides to a layer.
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leo_roque
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62 Points
9 years ago
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Photoshop: Request Regarding Guides : colored guides.
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melissa_vallen
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62 Points
9 years ago
Eine wirkliche Neuerung wäre es, wenn man die einzelnen Hilfslinien gruppieren könnte.
Ich arbeite sehr viel mit Photshop und entwerfe da zb. Mehrseitige Layout ́s wo ich auch eine große Menge Hilfslinien für die einzelnen Layout ́s habe.
Schön wäre es um mehr übersicht zu haben, die mehrere Hilfslinien in einer Gruppe zu grupieren die man getrennt von anderen Hilfslinien ausblenden könnte.
Viele Grüße und Danke für euer wundervolles Produkt.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Hilfslinien gruppieren.
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el_fakir
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9 years ago
I agree with Anna and Emily. Multiple guides sets could be really interesting: I'm wireframing quite a lot with Photoshop, and I use guides all the time. I like to keep my guides in case I have to enhance later an already worked out area, but then, my stage becomes easily noisy and it's hard to find my kittens.
One workaround could consist in using shared objects, to get one set per object, but it's not the main purpose of these and it could add unneeded complexity.
With JavaScript for the activeDocument, is it possible to retrieve the document guides list? Maybe I'm wrong, but I didn't find anything like that with CS5. It could be helpful to create a panel to store/retrieve guides sets into document metadata.
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el_fakir
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9 years ago
I agree with Anna and Emily. Multiple guides sets could be really interesting: I'm wireframing quite a lot with Photoshop, and I use guides all the time. I like to keep my guides in case I have to enhance later an already worked out area, but then, my stage becomes easily noisy and it's hard to find my kittens.
One workaround could consist in using shared objects, to get one set per object, but it's not the main purpose of these and it could add unneeded complexity.
With JavaScript for the activeDocument, is it possible to retrieve the document guides list? Maybe I'm wrong, but I didn't find anything like that with CS5. It could be helpful to create a panel to store/retrieve guides sets into document metadata.
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hershyf
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9 years ago
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Multiple Colors for Guides.....
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