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

It would be so useful to implement the guide layers that are being talked about on here. As others have said, have your own layers panel for guides, being able to lock/unlock, colour code, label etc.

This would be brilliant.

Thanks

Stew

Hey,

I tought the same way about that, introducing a new layer could be a pretty good solution.

I'd like to propose a new layer type — Guide Layers.

Guide Layers would be layers that solely contain guides. They would be individually lockable and the guide color could be assigned on a per-layer basis. Guides within the layer could be moved individually, with multiple selected or as a whole by moving the guide layer as you would any other layer. This would be an invaluable tool for mocking up complex interactive products.

An example:
When working on a site I will create one PSD per major interaction (let's use site registration as an example). The site itself will use a base grid, which will be part of my PSD template. Ideally, the base grid would always be locked. Each part of the registration interaction (which coud include several pages) will be housed in a layer folder of its own. Each one of those interactions will require some guides to help with positioning. However, those guides will only be relevant to elements witin that one layer folder.

Currently, all guides show all the time (unlike Illustrator and InDesign, which keep guides attached to layers and allow you to toggle them on and off). You can only toggle all guides binarily on/off and you have no way of easily hiding a subset of guides. The only workaround is to create a separate PSD for each interaction/page — which leads to a complex, file management nightmare (not to mention a waste of time/disk space, etc.)

This change would be a huge boost in productivity and I hope you'll seriously consider it.

Thanks,
Joe

The same point goes to slices - if there was some sort of slice Layers, groups or colors it'd make things much easier! 🙂

Multiple Guide Colors. Have one color guides for my slices, another for image alignment, etc.

Rooooohhhh, great! ;o)

Check out Paul Riggott’s Script here:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/932834...

Hi there!

I agree with Anna and Emily. Multiple guides sets could be really interesting: I'm wireframing quite a lot with Photoshop, and I use guides all the time. I like to keep my guides in case I have to enhance later an already worked out area, but then, my stage becomes easily noisy and it's hard to find my kittens.

One workaround could consist in using shared objects, to get one set per object, but it's not the main purpose of these and it could add unneeded complexity.

With JavaScript for the activeDocument, is it possible to retrieve the document guides list? Maybe I'm wrong, but I didn't find anything like that with CS5. It could be helpful to create a panel to store/retrieve guides sets into document metadata.

el'

Hi there!

I agree with Anna and Emily. Multiple guides sets could be really interesting: I'm wireframing quite a lot with Photoshop, and I use guides all the time. I like to keep my guides in case I have to enhance later an already worked out area, but then, my stage becomes easily noisy and it's hard to find my kittens.

One workaround could consist in using shared objects, to get one set per object, but it's not the main purpose of these and it could add unneeded complexity.

With JavaScript for the activeDocument, is it possible to retrieve the document guides list? Maybe I'm wrong, but I didn't find anything like that with CS5. It could be helpful to create a panel to store/retrieve guides sets into document metadata.

el'

Melissa's translation:

Hello,

A real innovation there, if you want to group the individual guides could be.
I work a lot with Photshop and designing since eg. S multi-page layout, where I also have a large amount of auxiliary lines for each layout's have.

It would be nice to have more overview, the Grupi several guides a group in which one could hide separated from other guides.

Many greetings and thanks for your wonderful product.