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Inspiring
June 16, 2015
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P: Artboards specific guides. Ability to duplicate guides between artboards

With the new artboard tool in Photoshop, I feel like it needs to be able to have guides nested within the artboard. That way when you duplicate an artboard, for another concept or screen etc, they will have the same guides so everything lines up. This is an essential part of what this new feature needs for me, so would appreciate it being looked at for a future update.

21 commentaires

Adobe Employee
July 14, 2017
Hi Brandon, this was added a few releases ago. Guides can be assigned to specific artboards via View>New Guide Layout. Guides are also duplicated when artboards with associated guides are duplicated. What version are you on?
Inspiring
July 14, 2017
I haven't seen this feature added to photoshop yet. Two years later when this issue was first brought up. Please make it when we duplicate an artboard the guides are duplicated as well. If this has been added then please let me know because it hasn't been working on my up to date photoshop.
Inspiring
June 1, 2016
I think this is already implemented.
Participating Frequently
December 26, 2015
Also, guides layout syncing for all artboards would be great to have! I mean if I changed/moved a guide on a "source" artboard it would do the same on all others. But this behavior should be optional. But it's highly useful for web design.
Inspiring
August 6, 2015


PLEASE - I BEG OF YOU - allow a user to assign guides to layers in photoshop like you're allowed to in illustrator so I can actually use your new wonderful artboard feature in photoshop and create nested grid layers!!!!
Adobe Employee
August 5, 2015
Thanks for the feedback Mary and Andy, guides work is high on our backlog and it will address many of these points. I'll discuss your feedback with the team, with this item in particular. Stay tuned!
Participant
August 5, 2015
InDesign style guides - perfect. This is what we need.
micahw57911421
Participant
August 5, 2015


Since artboard guide layouts haven't been added I've created some boxes to use to create new vertical guides outside of my artboard. Whenever I turn those boxes on, they rarely actually turn on and when they do and I click on it, all of my guides on my artboard shift to accommodate the outside objects like I've extended my artboard.

It turns out, whenever you take an item from your artboard and drag it outside of the artboard the guides will follow it.

Participant
August 4, 2015


Hi,

we just a made a big step and switched from our much loved Fireworks over to the new Photoshop CC 2015 for making web designs. Wasn’t an easy choice, but since Fireworks is no longer updated, it was just a matter of time and the new Artboard feature seemed like the right starting point.

The good news first:
It is amazing how fast we were able to dive into Photoshop web designs abilities. After some tuning of the settings it now feels pretty much as Fireworks – even if it will never be the same. ;-)

Artboards are cool, but when you have to work with multiple of them, guides don't really make sense anymore, since they overlap EVERY artboard on the screen. So when you have some horizontal guides in place and start a second artboard for a responsive layout beside the first one, the guides eventually will disrupt the new layout.

I wish the functionality was more like in Indesign: When you drag a guide outside an artboard it should be valid for all artboards, but if you drag one inside an artboard it should only impact this one artboard.

Also it would be really great if Photoshop could do some fancy guide stuff that plugins like GuideGuide offer – just like Indesign can do.

One really cool feature I miss from Fireworks is that when you drag in a guide and keep Shift key pressed, Fireworks would show you the exact spacing between the nearest guide one screen. Pretty neat! ;-)

Hope you guys can take a look at this.

Thanks in advance!
Mary
Inspiring
August 4, 2015


1. Create a new artboard
2. Redimmension it, manually or using one of the presets
3. When creating a new guide layout, the guides go beyond the artboard boundaries.
4. When scaling the artboard down the guides will be created outside based on the old dimmensions and when scalling it up the guides are created based on a even larger artbord.

This happend mostly when resizing the width but not when resizing the height.