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ruler guides disappear when i drag them

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Jun 08, 2017 Jun 08, 2017

i recently started using photoshop cc2017 at work and noticed that some ruler guides disappear when i drag them while others work properly...any ideas why this may be? i have show guides on.

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Community Expert , Jun 08, 2017 Jun 08, 2017

You mean the cyan guides rather than rulers? 

If you drag out a guide while their visibility is turned off (Ctrl ; ) then.  If you use the short cut the 'invisible' guide you just dragged out, should appear for you.  You can adjust a guide's position with the Move tool.

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Community Expert ,
Jun 08, 2017 Jun 08, 2017

You mean the cyan guides rather than rulers? 

If you drag out a guide while their visibility is turned off (Ctrl ; ) then.  If you use the short cut the 'invisible' guide you just dragged out, should appear for you.  You can adjust a guide's position with the Move tool.

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New Here ,
Feb 06, 2022 Feb 06, 2022

I’m using Adobe Photoshop Elements vs 19.0 on a MacBook Pro running macOS Monterey vs 12.1. This is a new computer running new software. I’m having the same problem. Guides aren’t visible on my image when I drag them - either when I first drag them into the work space them or move them onto the image - they're only visible when I drop them. I’ve changed the color. Nothing I do helps. Very frustrating, because my previous MacBook and previous Adobe Photoshop Elements software, this feature worked perfectly. View/Guides is checked (on)

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New Here ,
Jul 11, 2025 Jul 11, 2025

did you ever get this solved? i am having the same problem!

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Jul 11, 2025 Jul 11, 2025
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@cdl Did you notice that Donna was talking about Photoshop Elements?  If you are also this issue with Elements, then you should ask on that forum, because AFAIK there is only one regular poster on this forum with any experience with Elements.

 

It feels likely that Elements will also use Ctrl/Cmd ; to toggle Guides visibility, but it could also be Ctrl/Cmd H with toggles visibility for all Extras, (Grid, Guides, marching ants...)

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I can't think of anything else that would cause Guides to disappear after dragging them out from the Rulers.

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