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Inspiring
March 31, 2011
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P: Enhance guides to allow angled/perspective guides

  • March 31, 2011
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Why just horizontal or vertical guide lines? why don't you introduce angular guides or perhaps a function like the one in illustratore "make guide" ?

44 replies

Participant
July 5, 2016


It would be extremely helpful to have tools like the ellipse guides and rulers that work more like in the real world, similar to Artrage, Clip studio paint and Sketchbook Pro (for example 10 seconds into this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r96G15...).

Having the possibility to regulate pen pressure while having the trajectory of the brush locked to an ellipse guide or ruler would make a huge improvement to the current Photoshop drawing workflow.
Inspiring
July 16, 2015


i wonder why Photoshop doesn't support diagonal guides lines
Inspiring
February 13, 2015


add inclined benchmarks on photoshop. it is fine to have marks, but ps supports only vertically, and horizontally marks. I have projetcs that need inclined marks ... so please add this fonction
Participating Frequently
May 30, 2014

Having the ability to sketch in perspective, having strokes constrained to adjustable points placed on the canvas would be terrific like having a t square and ruler on my old drafting table.

Known Participant
January 2, 2022

Hello I would love it if it Photoshop would add a Perspective Grid feature for drawing/designing directly in photoshop. Years ago photoshop added symmertry drawing but stopped right there for some reason, was hoping they would add perspective, and ruler tools next. Perspective grid snapping and drawing is a common feature most art programs have and has been around for over a decade in other programs. Adobe Fresno has it, but for serious desktop work, photoshop really needs this feature as well. Anyone who designs alot of enviornments/draw in general for film/tv/games/hobby this is a must have feature in today's modern art software. Please add it.

 

Known Participant
January 2, 2022

Also I just want to note that there are plugins 3rd party plguins you can buy that allow you to do this like lazy nazumi ( good attempt but it feels way too complicated to make your grid and to use constantly on a daily basis at the moment, and its not native to photoshop), and perspetive grid v2.0 plugin by sergio (Great plugin for making a grid but we need snapping feature like Fresno has). A perspective grid is something that should be baked directly into photoshop. It could utilize vector lines but just give the ability to SNAP to them atleast. But a proper 1,2, and 3 point perspective drawing tool from adobe directly included in photoshop is much needed .

Participant
April 23, 2014
In addition to angled guides, the ability to create point guides would be immensly powerful for my workflow.

Many times i've found that i need to snap to a corner or a specific spot for one piece of the content and a slightly different variation of that x point at a vastly different y point. This has resulted in some of my documents having way more guides than I can keep track of, when all i need is to assign a guide point and not worry about it snapping halfway down the document to the wrong guide.
roman1961
Known Participant
July 18, 2013
I have been using Paths for guides with a great deal of success.

note: Path will take precedence when Free Transform is initiated. To avoid this Com.H (to hide the Path) -> initiate free Transform -> Com.H (to reveal Path guide) -> continue Free Transform.
Participating Frequently
May 1, 2013
Is Photoshop going to have angled/diagonal guides? Currently I can only set up horizontal or vertical guides. I think it wuold be beneficial to have angled guides. A used could enter specific angles or choose from standard, 15,30,45,60 degree angled guides

Inspiring
January 15, 2013
How about a simple, one-click tool that allows you to define a point from which guide lines radiate? It would be very handy in setting up the perspective of a painting; much nicer than having to create a layer and draw lines in by hand.
Bonus points if the opacity of the guide lines can be controlled so they can be dialed back to a nice, unobtrusive level.
Double bonus points if you can choose the number of lines and whether they appear only above the horizon line, below the horizon line, or both above and below.
Triple bonus points if the perspective guide can be locked in position.

powal1234
Participating Frequently
April 28, 2012
Great request! I've never been thinking about that but actually it makes great sense.

Thanks
Inspiring
March 4, 2012
Hi, i got a nice idea: photoshop cs5.1 isn't able to rotate help lines to a manual entered angle. this could be helpful if you want to check for falling lines at (for example) buldings, walls or some objects - important for picture analysis!!
next idea - same direction: photoshop cs5.1 isn't able to exempt shifted objects (see above).

-> i think photoshop should get some select features as we can it use it in powerpoint or ms visio but don't make a copy.....

ich hoffe, man kann mein holpriges englisch lesen - i hope you can unserstand my english