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Andacar62
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March 23, 2022
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Create Action That Makes Guides by Percent

  • March 23, 2022
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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

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

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Stephen Marsh
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March 23, 2022

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

Semaphoric
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March 23, 2022

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
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March 23, 2022

@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
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March 23, 2022

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

Stephen Marsh
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March 23, 2022

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

Andacar62
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March 23, 2022

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!