Copy and Paste Guides - Photoshop 2024

[Adrienne31433895r1xo]

I had a script that worked in photoshop 23 where I could copy and paste guides from one document to another, but it is not working in the new version of Photoshop.  Does anyone have an updated script or know how to fix this problem? 

[filips97187540]

Can you post the fixed old script?

[Stephen Marsh]

@filips97187540 

I'm on a mobile phone at the moment, so no. But it's as I previously wrote, just find the following two bits in the script changing 0 to 1:

desc2.putString(1, currentGuides.toSource());

var layerGuides = eval(desc1.getString(1));

[filips97187540]

Works here to, BUT it added one more guide at the top of the format, horizontal one.... Not sure why. I will rather stick with the new script for PS2024. Just to be sure.

[j0nathan_r0gers]

1. The longer 66 line version of Guides Copy.jsx and the longer 62 line version of Guides Paste.jsx have never worked for me
2. The shorter 23 line version of Export Guides - Photoshop.jsx and the shorter 28 line version of Import Guides - Photoshop.jsx works great in Adobe Photoshop 2025 for macOS!
   • My only question is: Would it be possible for the Guide Colors to copy over via these scripts?
     • The copy is multiple colored guides, but the paste always defaults to Cyan.

[Stephen Marsh]

The scripts pre-date guide colours. I'll give it a look when I have time, however, my understanding of Action Manager code is limited.

[Stephen Marsh]

@j0nathan_r0gers

I don't know if it's possible, or how to get the property of the guide colour.

[ExUSA]

Color is not a guide property that is supported in the DOM. You can use reflection to find properties. Run this script snippet with an open document containing at least one guide.

var doc = app.activeDocument;
var g = doc.guides;
var prop = g[0].reflect.properties;
var met = g[0].reflect.methods;
Window.alert(prop);
Window.alert(met);