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amy durocherCommunity Manager
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June 16, 2022
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Announcing Enhanced Guides support in Photoshop 23.4

  • June 16, 2022
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Introduced in Photoshop 23.4, Guide Enhancements provides additional guide functionality at the document level to customize and streamline day-to-day work in Photoshop. Guides enhancements include adding the ability to customize and colorize guides, edit guide properties, access guides via new keyboard shortcuts, and accessible guide options with a new right-click context menu. Users can now also delete guides with the delete key and multi-select to edit and move guides. 

 

We hope you give enhanced guides a try and provide feedback if you run into any problems. Check out our HelpX documentation for more info.

 

    Correct answer Mohit Goyal

    Hi all,

     

    We're happy to announce the release of Photoshop 23.4.2. This update includes the fix for the issues which we identified in Enhanced Guides support. To see the list of all fixed issues, click here

     

    To update Photoshop to 23.4.2, click "Update" in the Creative Cloud desktop app next to Photoshop. More detailed instructions for updating   

     

    Let us know if the update resolves the problem for those affected, and share your feedback.  

    Thanks,

    Mohit

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    Scott_Moris9227
    Participant
    May 13, 2025

    The Guide Enhancements introduced in Photoshop 23.4 are a much-welcome improvement. Customizing and colorizing guides, multi-selecting, and editing via keyboard shortcuts make precision work faster and more intuitive. The addition of a right-click context menu and delete key support also helps streamline workflows that previously required multiple clicks or menu navigation.

    While these features are a step in the right direction, they feel overdue for a tool as mature as Photoshop. Many designers have long relied on third-party scripts or workarounds for tasks like guide customization. It would be great to see Adobe take this momentum further — perhaps by adding guide snapping refinements, the ability to save guide sets as presets, or better integration with artboards and responsive design workflows.

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      AlekeCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      May 13, 2025

      Hi! Thanks so much for your feedback! We're always looking for ways to improve, and your input is really appreciated. If you have a moment, please check out our ideas board to see if there's already a thread for your suggestion. You can upvote existing threads or start a new one if you don't see your feedback listed. Our team regularly reviews these ideas and prioritizes updates based on user interest. Here's the link: https://adobe.ly/4mldy7Q
      Alek

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      Hooded humster
      Hooded humster
      Participant
      August 11, 2022

      Please allow us to turn this of and revert to using it the good old way

        Banananaz
        Banananaz
        Participant
        August 17, 2022

        Would it be possible to add a legacy guides option for those that liked it the way it was? When I place a guide, I have to click to confirm its placement. This is disruptive to my workflow when I intend to delete something I was working on, but instead, it deletes the guide I just placed.

        Panwar Garima
        Community Manager
        Panwar GarimaCommunity Manager
        Community Manager
        August 24, 2022

        Hi,

        Please try the workflow with the release of Photoshop 23.5

        In this release we have updated the guides behavior. You will no longer have to click to confirm the placement of guide.

        Let us know if the update resolves your problem and share feedback.

         

        Thanks,

        Garima

        Mohit Goyal
        Community Manager
        Mohit GoyalCommunity ManagerCorrect answer
        Community Manager
        July 19, 2022

        Hi all,

         

        We're happy to announce the release of Photoshop 23.4.2. This update includes the fix for the issues which we identified in Enhanced Guides support. To see the list of all fixed issues, click here

         

        To update Photoshop to 23.4.2, click "Update" in the Creative Cloud desktop app next to Photoshop. More detailed instructions for updating   

         

        Let us know if the update resolves the problem for those affected, and share your feedback.  

        Thanks,

        Mohit

        Ridam Batra
        Adobe Employee
        Ridam Batra
        Adobe Employee
        June 28, 2022

        @Hyper10sion @TheDigitalDog @BasedSPACER We regret that you are facing issues with the latest update. We are aware of these issues and our team is actively working on them. We are hopeful to fix these issues in the next release.
        Thanks for reporting them!

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          BasedSPACER
          Participant
          June 22, 2022

          This feature totally broke the way guides are supposed to work. Guides arent snapping to the correct place even when using "Snap To" on specific layers. I have to be zoomed way in for it to snap correctly to the exact pixel, which didn't happen on at all two versions ago.

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          amy durocherCommunity ManagerAuthor
          Community Manager
          June 20, 2022

          Thank you for your comment and feedback, I will create a ticket and have our engineers investigate the snapping behavior asap. 

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          Hyper10sion
          Participant
          June 20, 2022

          It appears that this update did break snapping to objects and the document itself.
          In a test I did to see how bad it is, out of 20 different attempts to get a guide to snap to the 0 point on a document, it only did so successfully twice.

            TheDigitalDog
            TheDigitalDog
            Inspiring
            June 20, 2022

            Agree, at least on Mac, the snap needs a bit of work. Still works, but seems to be a bit more hit or miss. Maybe the sensitivity has been updated and needs to be looked at/ 

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