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August 29, 2021
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Photoshop needs better tools for illustrators, and fast

Hello, I am currently thinking about switching from Photoshop to Clip Studio, as so many other artists already have) because of the lack of tools found in almost every other app. Specifically photoshop does not have the ruler tools that clip does, such as the radial ruler, the parallel ruler and the concentric circle ruler, which are all near essential for some types of illustration, and would be easy to ad next to the symmetry tool. Clip studio also has a feature called reference layer, where you can designate a layer as a "reference layer" and then select an option on tools like the magic wand to only select from that layer no matter what layer you're on. These features (mainly the rulers) would DEFINATELY make photoshop a better choice as an illustration app over things like Clip and Autodesk. I would love more than anything to be able to use photoshop for an upcoming comic project, but without the rulers, it might be more worthwhile to just switch to another app. thank you for your time!

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PECourtejoie
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 30, 2021

Hello, I would recommend for you to look at this add-on that adds many rulers types: https://lazynezumi.com/

 

In a few days, the feature request section of this site will be added.

I suggest then to create a thread for each suggestion you need.

Bojan Živković11378569
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Community Expert
August 30, 2021
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 it might be more worthwhile to just switch to another app. thank you for your time!


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You can switch to Adobe Illustrator and open Photoshop only for pixel based effects if necessary.

JJMack
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 30, 2021

Abobe may also havs a better Application for illustrators than Photoshop.  Have you look at Adobe  

illustrator ?

JJMack
jane-e
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Community Expert
August 30, 2021

Hi

The feedback forum for feature requests is now read-only. On 31 August it will be integrated with this forum so your post can be tagged as an "idea" for the engineering team. Can you reply to this post then and ask a moderator to tag it for you if you can't do it yourself?

 

See the announcement at the top of the forum page for details.

 

~ Jane

 

Known Participant
September 1, 2021

Thank you, I would love to have this tagged. I apologize for my inexperience with this site.

jane-e
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 1, 2021

Hi

It turns out the editing the initial post is impossible right now. A big window comes up and hides your post in a window that cannot be resized. (I tried it on a couple of others to confirm,)

 

 I'll see what I can find out tomorrow, as it's late in my time zone. If you start a new post, you can mark it as a bug or idea right at the start. We can then merge this post with your new one.

 

You can add this link to point to this current post: 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/photoshop-needs-better-tools-for-illustrators-and-fast/m-p/12350434

 

~ Jane

 

josephlavine
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Community Expert
August 29, 2021

Please remember that this is a user moderated group.

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