Create Action That Makes Guides by Percent

[Andacar62]

I'm attempting to make a Photoshop Action that creates a series of guides by percentage. I start  recording and create a horizontal guide at, say, 30%. But when I go back and look at the action it always converts to real pixels. That's a problem because I'm creating square images that need guides in the same place but are sometimes different sizes. Is there any way to get around this?

Thanks!

Darrell Leland

[Stephen Marsh · Accepted solution]

If the ruler units are set to %, then the action will record as %.

[Andacar62]

OK, this works great now. I'm creating guides for thumbnail images on the new folder design under Windows 11, and this is a big help. Thanks!

[Semaphoric]

I just tried this with a new Guide at 75%, and saw what you are seeing. I tried running it on several different size and shaped images, and they all had guides at 75%, despite what the Actions panel said.

[EDIT] Good point Stephen. Mine are set to Pixels.

[Stephen Marsh]

@Semaphoric - What OS and version of Photoshop?

@Andacar62 - What OS and version of Photoshop?

It works fine for me on Mac 11.6.4 and Photoshop 22.5.6

[Andacar62]

This is the latest release of Photoshop for Windows, 23.2.2, under Windows 11 on a pretty high end machine.

[Stephen Marsh]

So there is no problem? If you set your rulers to % then the action records and plays back as %???

If so, please mark my post as the correct answer to close-off the topic.

[Stephen Marsh]

I forgot to mention, that View > New Guide Layout can also be recorded into an action.