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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" ?

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    gloggen
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    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.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 16, 2015


    i wonder why Photoshop doesn't support diagonal guides lines
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    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
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    werezoo
    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.

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      djmattyz
      Inspiring
      April 6, 2019

      im learning to paint digitally with photoshop at the moment and have encountered the topic of perspective

      it seems people are using custom brushes or modified polygons to create perspective grids to work from.

      this seems like a bit of a hack way to do things for a program which is so powerful such as photoshop.

      it seems like quite an omission for photoshop not to have perspective tools / rulers , that you can snap your lines to etc.

      i have posted this in feature requests just now, but im posting here aswell because i would like feedback from other users as to what they think.  hopefully someone will tell me that iv got it all wrong.

        Nancy OShea
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        Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        April 7, 2019

        im using 20.0.2 release

        the article is from march 2018

        i created an empty layer as asked, the vanishing point filter is greyed out and not accessible.  im not sure why,  i tried an empty layer, then a layer with something in it, and then a smart object.  greyed out for all of them


        Go to Image > Mode.

        Is your image RGB color and 8bits/channel?

        Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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        jasonlro0407
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        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
        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.
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        brandonb37283581
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        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

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

        Thanks
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        FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
        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

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