How to add a canvas guide across multiple artboards

[jeremypinson]

Is there a way to add a single canvas guide after multiple artboards have been created?

For instance, I have a project with multiple canvas guides on it, which I then turned it into an artboard and duplicated that artboard. Now whenever I drag a new guide down from the ruler it becomes an artboard guide and is only visible when the specific artboard from which it was created is selected. But what if I want to create a new canvas guide for both artboards?

So far the only work around I can see is to select 'View > New Guide Layout...' and a create rows or columns, but this creates multiple guides and to be honest, is a bit time consuming having to use the product nav and then move the guide manually to its intended position.

[davescm · Accepted solution]

Hi

If you select more than one artboard in the layers panel and drag a guide from the ruler, then you will get a canvas guide.

If you use View >New Guide layout you can target individual art board, multiple artboards, or canvas layouts

Dave

[jeremypinson]

Thanks, Dave.

I have been struggling with this one for a while and could't found anything in Photoshop help/support regarding having to select multiple artboards in order to create a canvas guide, so this is super helpful.

Jeremy

[Mancerrss_MRM]

Yes, the Guides always show throughout the whole canvas for me, even if you selected an Artboard first

[jbunds]

How are you doing that? I have to do this everytime, it would be nice if there was a way to do it where you didn't have to select all of the artboards everytime but I can't figure it out.

[Francisco27517348pwqm]

Maaan! thanks!! I was wondering about this for a while!

Makes sense now: select all artboards and just drag a rule guide like always...