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Inspiring
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 In comparison illustrator feels like a very old, outdated software, even though you obviously know how to do it right.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

JakeInMotion
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Community Expert
Sep 28, 2022 10:15 AM UTC
This is probably my top desired feature. Creating and modifying vectors in AE should be similar, if not identical, to Illustrator.
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Sep 28, 2022 10:15 AM UTC
especially guides that snap to objects --> snap totheir bounding box, mask points, shapelayer points, intersections betwween other objects.....

like in Ai
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davidlindgren89
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Sep 28, 2022 10:15 AM UTC
Make it possible to open guides you've saved in Premiere Pro.
That would be awesome! 🙂
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Inspiring
Sep 28, 2022 10:15 AM UTC
Could not agree more Lukas!

Adobe has perfected a lot of great tool in Id , Ai and ID 0- Ive never understood why they dont share technologies with Ae.

Especially Ae and PSD since they are both pixel based.

Hopefully realistic rulers that users can type in X and Y values as you said gets added soon.
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Inspiring
Sep 28, 2022 10:15 AM UTC
Yeah I would love some more features for guides because they're so useful. Colors and labels too please!
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