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March 31, 2011
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P: Enhance guides to allow angled/perspective guides

  • March 31, 2011
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Why just horizontal or vertical guide lines? why don't you introduce angular guides or perhaps a function like the one in illustratore "make guide" ?

44 replies

Genius
February 16, 2026

Angled and non-straight guides would be a huge help. There should be menu items for “Make Guide from Selection” and “Make Guide from Path” at the least. We get useless AI slop but actually useful ideas are ignored. :sigh:

jane-e
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 16, 2026

@Elcam666 

 

Please upvote on the Primary thread for this feature:

 

Jane

c.pfaffenbichler
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 16, 2026

@Sameer K , could you please change this thread from »Question« to »Feature Request«? 

jane-e
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February 16, 2026

@c.pfaffenbichler and ​@Sameer K 

 

Does this post need to be merged with the Primary thread?

 

Jane

Sameer K
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 16, 2026

Well, I’ve run into a hiccup. Ideas cannot be merged into another Idea yet. I’ll follow up and merge when possible. 

Thanks!
Sameer K

Trevor.Dennis
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 16, 2026

You can specify the exact angle of rotation with Free Transform.

 

 

If you are referring to Rotate Canvas then the angle is shown in the Options Bar

 

c.pfaffenbichler
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 16, 2026

I think the OP spoke about the ability to have Guides at other angles than horizontal and vertical. 

PECourtejoie
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October 16, 2025

I noticed that this thread is now one of the most upvoted ones that has not yet been published. 

Remeber to vote, invite your peers to do so!

Leslie Moak Murray
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Community Expert
February 7, 2023

I agree with @davescm, I work only in Photoshop because I don't like the look of AI vectors for my art. I could definitely use angled guides from time to time.

-edit typo

dav_id22
Participant
February 7, 2023

what do you think?

Leslie Moak Murray
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 7, 2023

I like this idea

davescm
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 21, 2022

Again you seem to think that angled guides are not required with raster images. They are. I use both Illustrator and Photoshop. For many styles of digital painting Photoshop is the right application. It is also the right application for compositing e.g. compositing the rasterised outputs from 3D rendering applications. In both of those cases angled guides would be useful.

This is not about Illustrator vs Photoshop, or vector vs raster, but about making Photoshop's existing guides more flexible and useful.

Dave

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 21, 2022

I don't wish to cause controversy but I think Photoshop suffers from trying to be too many things it's not and not enough on what it needs to be.  Customers want flawless, stable software they can count on to edit raster images.  Despite its power & greatness, Photoshop has too many flaws.  And the more baggage it has to carry the more it resembles a 10,000 pound camel.

 

Angled guides have been an Illustrator feature since 2011.  But Illustrator is a vector graphics app and thus well-suited to this.  If you wish to use Photoshop for a quick vector to save time, have at it. But I don't think anyone should expect PS to behave exactly like AI.  They are totally different apps.

 

End of rant.

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Participant
June 20, 2022

Just to put us back on track here and close this point out. This is a thread about users requesting Adobe to expand on Photoshop's guide system. We were not really discussing what each App was initially designed for. Much has changed since the inception of these apps and I believe that's the goal here, to expand on them with user feedback. It would benefit many users to include those features and enhancements to Photoshop to minimize the need to switch apps if you're already in Photoshop designing. In my case the streamlined process of having fundamental design tools inside each app would be great. I don't see people using the guides to line up a photo but to line up text definitely.