P: Custom Guides (groupable, colorable, nameable guides)

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Would be very useful, when you work with a grid of many guides, to mark some more or less important lines in your layout, what do you think?

It would be great if Photoshop allowed multiple guide sets, perhaps as layers.
Each guide set could have different colors, and be turned on/off as needed.
This would be a HUGE asset for my workflow.

Joe,

Thanks for the heads up.

I did notice in the settings for GuideGuide that you can choose what it does with "remainders" from odd dimensions (assign "leftovers" to right/left/top/bottom). This was a good sign that what you get out of GuideGuide is only as accurate as what you put into it.

Hi Paul,
Be careful with GuideGuide. It can be a useful tool, but sometimes creates imperfect grids (a pixel off here and there) and it's impossible to tell if you haven't measured what it creates. Be sure to double check any crucial guides before using!

Cheers,
Joe

This doesn't solve the grouping/organizing problem, but this makes applying guides and even saving guide arrangements MUCH easier:

http://guideguide.me/

I've only used it for about five minutes and already can't believe that I've only just found it! The one-click document borders and center lines sold me right away (but it's a free plug-in)!

I Googled "group guides" to make sure I wasn't missing a feature and this thread was the first thing to come up. Seriously, Adobe? I can do this in Illustrator, why not Photoshop? Just put guides in layers already!

Anyway, I see a few other posts, some kind of old, that users just want to transfer guides between files. This isn't a fix-all, but if I need a set of guides that I can then apply to other files of the same or similar dimensions, I create an "Action" for it. Then just hit "Play" for that action on a new file and all those guides are created automatically. This take a little planning, but it's a toss-up between "Save-As" and then delete everything except the guides for the new file. At least then the guides are still there and the same as the previous file...

Definitely need smarter guides in Photoshop.

Select multiple guides (for mass deleting)
Lock selected guides
Drag out multiple guides - evenly spaced
Limited Guides (i.e. only spanning a small area rather than the whole document)

Well whilst using Photoshop CS6 for my Web Design elements i was thinking about a new feature that could be implemented.

This is being able to Group guides and save there positions for use on another Layer of even a whole new document.

It would work by double clicking on the guide then having a "Group To" or "Create Group" Option, this way when you create a guide you can have the option to Load saved guides and place them inside the current document.

-ConnerTurner
Adobe CS6 Experimentalist

I put this on the Adobe forums (in response to an older thread), but this seems like a more appropriate place to leave these thoughts:

I want to +10000000 the OP's idea. Just being able to have 'layers' with different sets of guides that you could turn on and off would improve my workflow a thousand fold. None of the 'work around' solutions would speed up my workflow, in fact they would slow it down but maybe alleviate the headache of trying to remember which guideline, out the thousand (exaggeration) streaking every which way across my screen, is the one I want.

Really feel like Adobe has missed a trick here. It's always been one of those things when I consider everything that Photoshop can do and I'm like... "Really? You can't do that? Huh...weeeeeird."