P: Enhance guides to allow angled/perspective guides

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

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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.

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what do you think?

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

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.

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. 

As I said, Photoshop is a raster editor;  not a vector graphics app.  You can't change a zebra's stripes.  Yes, it can make shapes.  And to a limited extent it can edit video, too.  But it's not my go-to app for vectors or video. 

When you want all the bells & whistles available to vector graphics apps, it's best to use the right tool for the job -- Illustrator, After Effects, Animate, etc...  You'll get much better results.

I had to jump in on this one. Photoshop and Fater Effect both have shape layers and type tools that are not raster based. Photoshop also uses smart objects which can be linked to illustrator so why limit Photoshop? If you can make any shape that isn't just horizontal or vertical you'd benefit from angular and even circular guides in Photoshop. 

"Angled guides will not help you with pixel-based images."

Sorry, but I totally disagree on that statement. Angled guides can be extremely useful when digital painting in Photoshop. At present you can work around it with a separate layer and transformed vector lines, but the real answer is to be able to use angled guides.

Dave

@Ivan Zajats 

"I'd like to Rotate the Guides."

Me too! It would be helpful when drawing in perspective to have guides (instead of lines) going off to the vanishing point. I've clicked the Upvote button at the top.

Jane