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Sep 28, 2022 9:40 AM UTC
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Add smart guides, snapping & guides like in Illustrator

Illustrator has done it right.
- dragging guides out of the rulers is easy
- guides snap and show relations via smart guides
- guides can be selected and moves via the keyboard & the position value can be easily adjusted in pixels
- smart guides help when positioning and resizing layers
- snapping helps to change the origin for the ruler
- elements snap to guides

Its also an Abobe tool, so please copy this behaviour over. In comparison illustrator feels like a very old, outdated software, even though you obviously know how to do it right.

Cheers

15 replies

Known Participant
Apr 23, 2026 11:36 AM UTC

Photoshop got them in 2005
21 yeas later we still dont have them in AE… Comon we need them...

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Known Participant
May 26, 2023 8:28 AM UTC

Yes! Please add this..

So basic, one would think....

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Sep 28, 2022 10:16 AM UTC
Yes and also guide layouts like in Photoshop, just being able to make guide setups for rule of 3 for example would make compositions in AE so much easier.
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Sep 28, 2022 10:16 AM UTC
Yes, for sure!
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rlmbrt
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Sep 28, 2022 10:16 AM UTC
Yes please!!!
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Sep 28, 2022 10:16 AM UTC
YESSSSSSS!
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Sep 28, 2022 10:16 AM UTC
Yes please!
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Sep 28, 2022 10:16 AM UTC
This would be fantastic!
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Sep 28, 2022 10:15 AM UTC
YES!
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Sep 28, 2022 10:15 AM UTC
This would be a huge plus. 100% behind this
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