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Make the adjustment of guides consistent in Adobe's apps.

Contributor ,
Dec 01, 2023 Dec 01, 2023

Currently in order to set a specific value for a guide one needs to perform absolutly different actions in Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and After Effects.

 

In Photoshop you need to click "View → Guides → New Guide…" and then enter a specific value for a guide :

photoshop guides.png

 

In Illustrator you need to create a guide, select it and adjust its position in the Properties panel under the Transform section:

illustrator guides.png

 

In Premiere Pro and After Effects, you need to right-click on a guide, then select "Edit Position…" in After Effects or "Edit Guide…" in Premiere Pro. After that, you can edit the value inside the window (even these windows look different in Premiere Pro and After Effects):

Premiere Pro:

premiere pro guides.png

 

After Effects:

after effects guides.png

 

Due to the inconsistency among the apps within Adobe's Suite, it's challenging for new users to learn how to use it. The same result is achieved differently in each app for some reason. Please make it consistent to decrease the steep learning curve that is present nowadays.

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7 Comments
Community Expert ,
Dec 01, 2023 Dec 01, 2023

It's quite easy in Premiere.

Make ruler visible in Program window (button editor or Show Rulers)

Right click on ruler > choose pixels or percentage.

Drag guide out from ruler to desired position.

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Contributor ,
Dec 01, 2023 Dec 01, 2023
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It's quite easy in Premiere.

Make ruler visible in Program window (button editor or Show Rulers)

Right click on ruler > choose pixels or percentage.

Drag guide out from ruler to desired position.


By @Ann Bens 

 

But it's not as easy when using several of Adobe's apps (After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator) because it requires performing three different actions to achieve the same result. That's very confusing. Please read my post; I have posted similar messages in sections dedicated to Photoshop, After Effects, and Illustrator.

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Community Expert ,
Dec 02, 2023 Dec 02, 2023

Dont think all apps will be going on the same page.

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Contributor ,
Feb 15, 2025 Feb 15, 2025

What do you mean?

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LEGEND ,
Feb 15, 2025 Feb 15, 2025

The pro video apps are basically in one group, Premiere, AfterEffects, and Audtion. They do share some teams and persons but are still essentially different apps.

 

The still image apps of Photoshop and Lightroom are from what I can tell, another group. And the design apps including Ilustrator are a different group.

 

Each group really has a different set of users they go after. Some of us users, of course, 'overlap' between them. But perhaps not that many.

 

Although they just did bring the context aware Properties panel out of some of the design apps into Premiere. So some changes to unify them may come over time.

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Community Beginner ,
Feb 17, 2025 Feb 17, 2025

@R Neil Haugen 
I disagree with you. Splitting the apps into the aforementioned categories/groups is unnecessary—it only creates redundant segregation, making the learning curve steeper for users.
All the apps have 2D canvases, rulers, and guides, so their interfaces can be designed similarly to enhance usability and user experience (if anyone even cares about that in the first place). A great example of this is how Affinity's developers designed their apps. Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, and Affinity Publisher serve different purposes and could be categorized separately, yet they share a consistent design language. This consistency makes them much easier and more enjoyable to learn and use compared to their Adobe counterparts. Check it yourself – Affinity Suite design

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LEGEND ,
Feb 17, 2025 Feb 17, 2025
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As far as I can tell, the Adobe apps weren't grouped that way as part of an initial design consideration. I think you may be assuming they all started as part of a centralized organization building apps from ground zero.

 

I think all (or nearly all) of the Adobe CC apps had a start as a different bit of software created by a different company ... and already had a user base at the time Adobe bought  them.

 

And the user bases of the various groups are still quite different, and for the most part, do not overlap that much. I'm one of the few that I know of that really has about the full set installed, but realistically, I use Pr, Au, and Ae, occasionally Ps or Il, and can't think of the last time I was in Animate or InDesign. Or Lightroom, for that matter.

 

The Missus is still a pro stills portraitist, the business I started many years ago ... and is nearly totally in Lightroom and Photoshop. Has done a little bit in Premiere as I've been there to help her, and avoids Il like the plague.

 

I was the first user of any Adobe in our shop, Photoshop Cs ... 4.5, I think ... to use with the new invention of a flat-bed scanner to use for our copy & restoration work, so I didn't have to shoot Kodak 4x5 sheet film of every copy job. Then when digital cameras came in, we started with Lightroom public beta 0.8. And of course, Photoshop.

 

But for over a decade I've been in pro video and video post ... and I almost can't remember how to do anything in Lr or Ps anymore.

 

Very few users know multiple apps well. Those tend to be the ones say doing graphic design, making motion graphics, using elements from Illustrator and Photoshop. The rest of us ... don't.

 

 

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