P: Custom Guides (groupable, colorable, nameable guides)

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Hi! I've been thinking this for quite a while, and I know most of the web designers out there have the same need... groupable, colorable, nameable guides.

It's important to use guides. But sometimes it gets a little messy.

What would be perfect is if guides had their own layer-style format. And each group, or layer, had an asigned color. You could turn on and off visibility of specific groups, or just turn them all off by hitting cmd + H, as we do today.

This would make photoshop THE perfect software for web design.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Might be interesting to save and load set(s) of guides, this way, the document could have all or parts of guides sets loaded, making the document less heavy on visual

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Again, check out Paul Riggott’s Script here:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/932834...

[JeffN3]

Christoph,
Thanks for the link.
As I've said in another post, Paul Riggott's scripting skills are invaluable.
He has solved two previous problems for me that I had put in as a Request Feature.

I have no scripting knowledge. I know that I'll use Photoshop ExtendKit to paste Paul's code into and save in the appropriate location.

Can you till me how I would then use this script? How does it work? I have not added the script to CS5 yet. So maybe it's self explanatory.

I read the OP by Shan-Dysigns... had to get out my NASA silver heat shield!! and put on a welding helmet and gloves to endure the flame throwing. Sad.

JeffN

[c.pfaffenbichler]

If I remember correctly the Script, when invoked, offers a dialog from whence you can save the current Guides, load a previously saved set of Guides or add them to the Guides currently in the document.
The sets of Guides are saved with the XMP metadata, so they should stay available with the individual documents.

And yes, Paul’s Scripts and his advice on Scripting matters are indeed a boon.

[Guest]

I've been thinking about this for years now. I really think Guide Sets would be an AMAZING feature in Photoshop.

The ability to lay down guides in a specific set, and then turn them on/off individually. Along with this would be the ability to choose the color of your guides in a set so that you could have multiple sets turned on and know which guides are related to what set.

For example, "set one" has blue guides, "set two" has pink guides, "set three" has green guides, and you can turn them on and off individually.

Awesome? Yes. I think so.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Also ability to rotate guides.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I put this on the Adobe forums (in response to an older thread), but this seems like a more appropriate place to leave these thoughts:

I want to +10000000 the OP's idea. Just being able to have 'layers' with different sets of guides that you could turn on and off would improve my workflow a thousand fold. None of the 'work around' solutions would speed up my workflow, in fact they would slow it down but maybe alleviate the headache of trying to remember which guideline, out the thousand (exaggeration) streaking every which way across my screen, is the one I want.

Really feel like Adobe has missed a trick here. It's always been one of those things when I consider everything that Photoshop can do and I'm like... "Really? You can't do that? Huh...weeeeeird."

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Well whilst using Photoshop CS6 for my Web Design elements i was thinking about a new feature that could be implemented.

This is being able to Group guides and save there positions for use on another Layer of even a whole new document.

It would work by double clicking on the guide then having a "Group To" or "Create Group" Option, this way when you create a guide you can have the option to Load saved guides and place them inside the current document.

-ConnerTurner
Adobe CS6 Experimentalist

[ajaykarwal]

Definitely need smarter guides in Photoshop.

Select multiple guides (for mass deleting)
Lock selected guides
Drag out multiple guides - evenly spaced
Limited Guides (i.e. only spanning a small area rather than the whole document)

[paulmz]

I Googled "group guides" to make sure I wasn't missing a feature and this thread was the first thing to come up. Seriously, Adobe? I can do this in Illustrator, why not Photoshop? Just put guides in layers already!

Anyway, I see a few other posts, some kind of old, that users just want to transfer guides between files. This isn't a fix-all, but if I need a set of guides that I can then apply to other files of the same or similar dimensions, I create an "Action" for it. Then just hit "Play" for that action on a new file and all those guides are created automatically. This take a little planning, but it's a toss-up between "Save-As" and then delete everything except the guides for the new file. At least then the guides are still there and the same as the previous file...

[paulmz]

This doesn't solve the grouping/organizing problem, but this makes applying guides and even saving guide arrangements MUCH easier:

http://guideguide.me/

I've only used it for about five minutes and already can't believe that I've only just found it! The one-click document borders and center lines sold me right away (but it's a free plug-in)!

[joerivera]

Hi Paul,
Be careful with GuideGuide. It can be a useful tool, but sometimes creates imperfect grids (a pixel off here and there) and it's impossible to tell if you haven't measured what it creates. Be sure to double check any crucial guides before using!

Cheers,
Joe

[paulmz]

Joe,

Thanks for the heads up.

I did notice in the settings for GuideGuide that you can choose what it does with "remainders" from odd dimensions (assign "leftovers" to right/left/top/bottom). This was a good sign that what you get out of GuideGuide is only as accurate as what you put into it.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

It would be great if Photoshop allowed multiple guide sets, perhaps as layers.
Each guide set could have different colors, and be turned on/off as needed.
This would be a HUGE asset for my workflow.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Would be very useful, when you work with a grid of many guides, to mark some more or less important lines in your layout, what do you think?

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

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[patokeeem]

It would be great if you could group guides to specific layers or groups instead of having one set of global guides. there should be an option to do both. for example if you have guides set for "Layer 1" and another set of guides set for "Layer 2" when you group those layers together, the group would allow you to show/toggle an aggregate of Layer 1 & 2 guides. If people like the way its currently set up with global guides, that should be an option as well.

[powal1234]

Screendesign: Cropping out fileparts with slices is a great future!

Would be great if one could create "Slice Layers"
- due to sometimes having overlapping different slice sizes according to the visible layers in the file I sometimes have to continously reslice the document for publishing different parts of the file. So logically there is like different Slice Layers I needed.

Similar to illustrators implementation of guides - you can create guide groups and show them when you need them.

Would be great if I could store slice arrangements in some sort of Layer for later reuse.
It's just a draft idea but it could optimize screendesigner's workflow while saving precious time and giving opportunity to focus on the main part which is designing :-)

Also having guides as layers similar to illustrator's feature would make things easier.
Example: If I need the 960Grid i show it, while hiding all other guides which irritate snapping functionality.
When I need other guides i show them while hiding the 960 Grid of guides.

What's your opinion to working with slices and guides?

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Would LOVE if Photoshop had an option for multiple guide layers (with colour options).

So for example, I could have four separate guide layers (that I can turn on/off separately) and each could be assigned a different colour.

Having one guide system for an entire complex project can be very frustrating. AND (pardon me if I'm wrong) It would seem like such a simple/powerful addition to the software.

(Illustrator kinda already does it)

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

A layer pallet for guides. To be able to have guide layer that you can turn on / off like layers. If following a grid system it often happen that you need nested grids, and that can be very confusing at a certain point.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Hi, my name is Danny and i have an idea.

Im a coder so im working with guides a lot, some projects are not so coplicated other much harder, im using guides to set witdh/hight and place of an object on site.
Sometimes when project is harder i see only guides instead of project objects :)

So i was thinking... and I came up with idea about sticked guides:
Part of guide is visible in 100% of opacity only where it sticks to specific layer/layers

I've made a preview for you:

[TahiaDesign]

I also need some guides in other colors! Just happened to me that I need to make a difference between crop guides and regular guides. I thought it was possible, but nope 😞

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Can you add some functionality to guidelines? Group guideline and let view and hide different set of guidelines just like layer groups? so i can on and off different set of guidelines for different purposes. right now there is no way of managing guidelines.... end up creating too many guidelines.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

It would be very helpful to be able to change the color of each guide so that many guides can be utilized at the same time while being able to differentiate them by color. For example, in the same document I could have blue guides for print safe area, green guides for text alignment, orange guides for image alignment, etc.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Dialog/window to manage,create,delete,re-locate, toggle on/off all guides in a document