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chrisell99
Known Participant
July 8, 2022

P: Guides are now being left auto-selected after creating them

  • July 8, 2022
  • 11 replies
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When dragging a guide in from one of the edge rulers in a document, since about 1st August 2022, it somehow is now left selected as the active element of the document.

This means it's broken a considerable amount of workflow.

Example:

Drag a rectanguar marquee.

Drag a guide to snap to the edge of the marquee.

Ctrl-delete to fill the marquee.

 

This used to work. When you do it now, Ctrl-delete deletes the newly-created guide because it has been left as the active element, instead of filling the marquee which is what it should have done.

 

There's no way to de-select the guide without removing the marquee selection first. This is a significant change to the most basic functionality and has removed the ability to have selections in a document if you're trying to use guides.

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11 replies

Known Participant
July 8, 2022

I'm noticing a change in that when I drag out a new guide line it shows 'blue', and can be deleted by a selection tool. The blue seems to mean that the guide is active (opposed to the cyan guides that are not). The problem is if I use a selection tool and it runs through the active (blue) guide, it will delete just the blue guide. Clicking anywhere on the blank document will deactivate the new guide, turning it to cyan. Anyone else have this problem, or know how to turn it off? Thanks!

 

** I'm on an iMac, Monterey 12.4. Photoshop 23.4.1.

c.pfaffenbichler
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 8, 2022

As a work-around you could check View > Guides > Lock Guides, you can still drag out guides but you won’t delete them this way.