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The ability to quickly add multiple guides in Photoshop has arrived! Access this new feature and customize the options by selecting View > New Guide Layout. Not only can you enter the number of Columns and Rows that you need, but you can also choose the Width or Height, Gutter, Margins and whether or not to Center the Columns. To reuse the guides in multiple images, save the New Guide Layout options as a preset using the Preset drop-down menu. You can also choose to Clear Existing Guides if needed. Here are some examples of the guides you can create.
Columns and Rows with Gutters defined.
Specific Columns Width and Rows with Gutter defined.
Guide Margin defined.
Centered Columns with numeric Width defined.
In addition, you can create guides based on a shape (View > New Guide from Shape). And you’re not limited to only Shape layers, you can create Guides from Type layers and pixel based layers! As you can see from the examples below, the Guides are created based on the bounding box around the contents of the layer
Guides created around Shape Layer.
Guides created around the contents of pixel layer.
Guides created from a Type Layer.
These two new features are going to save me a significant amount of time!
Guide layout doesn’t show up in my photoshop CC. How do I fix that?
Make sure your version of Photoshop is up to date: http://adobe.ly/PS-Up-To-Date
Thank you! I use guides a lot and this will come in handy.