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April 29, 2011
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P: Custom Guides (groupable, colorable, nameable guides)

  • April 29, 2011
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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.

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    PECourtejoie
    Community Expert
    PECourtejoieCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    September 19, 2022

    I wanted to point out new enhancements to guides in the 23.4 version: 

    https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/photoshop/using/grid-guides.html#guides-enhancement-june2022

    This includes the ability to colorize and edit guides via new keyboard shortcuts and a new context menu.

    You can also delete guides with the Delete key and multi-select guides to edit and move them.

    New dialog boxes include the option to colorize individual or multi-selected guides, making identification and visual isolation of guides much easier.

    multi-select by clicking option + shift (Mac) or Alt + Shift (Win). Right-click and select Edit Selected Guides from the context menu.

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      Brigitte23914987gcbi
      Participating Frequently
      April 5, 2022

      Would be very useful to be able to have different colours for the guidelines, especially when you need lots of them and they are very close to each other.

        Michael Bullo
        Community Expert
        Michael BulloCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        April 5, 2022

        Not sure if this is one of those "so dumb but it kinda works" ideas…

         

        Using the Single Row and Single Column Marquee Tools you can easily make selections a single pixel wide. You could target different layers and fill these selections with different colours.

         

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          nicolasl55695402
          Participant
          October 6, 2019
          Hi,
          sorry to come late in the chat.

          Form me, groups layer with colors is a good idea, but having dozen of new layers in the layers control panel suns not great (even if they should be hidden by layer filters panel).

          A new tool for guides could be interesting.
          Guide selection, change color on right click so group them by the way. Remove by delete key once selected.

          Anyway if to much guides are needed, it's time to go on inDesign ! 🙂

          But I came here for a different reason, concerning guides too.

          Is there a way to have main guides : guides over all artboards ?
            Kukurykus
            Kukurykus
            Legend
            September 24, 2018
            It would be much better you posted images illustrating that you want to say. For now it's hard for me to imagine how that should be looking you wish to have in Photoshop...
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            FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
            Inspiring
            September 24, 2018


            While designing a layout, is common to group layers and move groups, if the guides you select are inside a particular group you can continue the design after adjusting the canvas size, for example while designing a web site.
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            mhoffma
            Participating Frequently
            April 25, 2017


            I'd love to see a few basic improvements to the Guide Layout dialog box and the guides in general.

            From easy to more complex:

            1. Have a "make all settings the same" button under New Guide Layout for the Margin area similar to the indesign file setup. Most of the time I want to have all those settings the same.

            2. Allow me to right click on a guide and change its color.

            3. Allow me to make "Guide Groups" I can layer on each other with options for color for each group. 

            Thanks!
             
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            FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
            Inspiring
            February 2, 2017


            Photoshop : Option to choose multi coloured guides and sets of user determined guides
            tiffanyw55422821
            tiffanyw55422821
            Participant
            December 5, 2016

            I would love to see the ability to set up different color guide lines for different layers in Photoshop as well. Lots of times I end up with too many guidelines and getting mixed up between them.

              Rajashree Bhattacharya
              Community Manager
              Rajashree BhattacharyaCommunity Manager
              Community Manager
              December 8, 2016

              Moving to Photoshop,

              Regards

              Rajashree

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              FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
              Inspiring
              October 6, 2016


              YO!

              Couple quick suggestions.

              How about the guide rulers in Photoshop having a transparency value, would make life easier when you have a lot of em, working on designing a very symmetrical lineart logo and I can barely see the image even with the rulers that's just dots. =p



              Being able to go between multiple different 'sets' of rulers and guides
              would be pretty sweet too. Screen can get pretty crowded. Might make life a bit easier being able to attach sets of rulers and guides to layers or something. So you can easily display just the rulers that are relevant to what your working on.

              Being able to set diagonal rulers of various angles would be pretty shweet. IE being able to set 'this ruler should be at 37 degrees' or whatever would be cool.

              Perhaps even being able to fine tune the little 'distance marks' on the ruler on rulers on the side, how far apart each one is, being able to 'snap to' on a custom amount of pixels, or a custom amount of pixels from your starting position, would be some pretty handy options to have, especially in the initial stages of plotting something out.

              Being able to set a 'symmetrical snap to' option from a 'starting ruler' would be pretty great too.

              Was a couple things I noticed while working, and a couple things I just brainstormed. Hope I was able to help. =D

              ❤️ U BAI.
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                FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
                Inspiring
                April 11, 2016
                I agree with selectively locking guides, either individual or by group. This would help a ton on responsive website designs. Make it happen Adobe!
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