Comments on: New GuideGuide panel sets columns & grids in Photoshop

By: garbled

garbled — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:23:42 +0000

Flash is trash.

By: Cameron McEfee

Cameron McEfee — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:11:48 +0000

Are you using it in 64bit mode? A number of people have reported the panel not displaying properly in 64bit mode. It’s something I’m trying to figure out at the moment.

By: Dave Stevenson

Dave Stevenson — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:02:32 +0000

Cameron: this is an amazing panel. Thanks so much!

By: James

James — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:29:05 +0000

I find it somewhat hilarious that John takes a jab at Apple with the Flash comment, but I have yet to have the panel display properly in any install of this panel I’ve tried.

Garbled text and blank entry boxes. Don’t get me wrong, it works – but you have no idea what things do without trying because no text appears in the panel:

https://skitch.com/jamesd/rka74/guide-guide

By: David

David — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 22:21:12 +0000

I use Content aware fill a lot, mostly as an improved spot heal tool. The biggest drawback of the tool for me is that it can’t rotate the source of the patch, so you can’t really use it to clean up a curved element.

I don’t use puppet warp much, but when I do, it lets me do things that would be nearly impossible to do with other tools.

I have a long list for less flashy improvements I’d like to see, but I like that I can solve a lot of my own workflow issues through scripting Photoshop. Too bad Extension Builder costs $1500…

By: Cameron McEfee

Cameron McEfee — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:47:44 +0000

I took care of that issue and a couple others last night. I’m just waiting to fix a few more things before I release an update. Should be ready in the next week or so.

By: Tenaitch

Tenaitch — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 14:19:54 +0000

Great tool, will find this useful on a daily basis, I’m tired of the ancient New Guides dialog that dosn’t let me create horizontal and vertical guides at 50% simultaneously.
When will Adobe give us guides that run at any given angle on the document? I need this when aligning photo comps.

By: PECourtejoie

PECourtejoie — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 08:15:45 +0000

Hello!

How are you creating the guides? from the new guides menu?
I am creating them by dragging them from the rulers, (so therefore I set the units to percentage before.) That might be the issue you are running into!

I just checked, and yes, if I create a new guide from the View>New Guide… menu with 50 % as the value, but with the rulers set in inches, the action WILL pick up the inches values.

So whenever you want to create a new guides action, set the rulers beforehand to the units you want to record them into (no need to record the change of units in the action, as you might not want to change them in the documents the actions will be played into.)
Hope this helps! ;)

By: Martin Schaefer

Martin Schaefer — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:18:53 +0000

Hi PECourtejoie, thanks for this hint. I wasn’t aware that changing the ruler scale unit would affect the recording of the new guide parameter. A bit weird to be honest. If I enter “%” as the unit, this should be recorded.

Anyway. Now I know how it works and Adobe will add these small usability quirks to the next JDI stack. :)

Cheers,
Martin

By: PECourtejoie

PECourtejoie — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:57:34 +0000

Martin, I just tried again, and an action correctly records the percentage, and applying it to another document of different size works flawlessly. Try to record the fact that you change the rulers to percentage (It should work without that-and does not record it-, but one never knows).

It is also possible to edit the new doc sizes document, to create custom documents with guides.

By: Martin Schaefer

Martin Schaefer — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:34:38 +0000

Hi John,

did you know, that you can create guides by entering percentage values in “View / New Guide”? This is very helpful to generate guides for golden ratio.

Only downside, sadly, you can’t record this to an action, because the action stores corresponding pixel values only (not the percentage you entered). So we can’t create a simple action that works on all document sizes.

Cheers,
Martin

By: Coşkun OLCA

Coşkun OLCA — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:16:08 +0000

Great tool! Thanks for post & also thanks to Cameron for creating this very useful tool. Also I’m still waiting functions like “Support guide sets (e.g. for grid layouts)” from here;

http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/09/feedback-please-potential-webdrawing-features-in-photoshop.html

By: Tim Mackey

Tim Mackey — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 06:40:26 +0000

This is so awesome! I can’t even describe how happy this post made me, I’ve been wanting functionality like this in Photoshop for years! Thanks for posting, John, and kudos to Cameron the panel’s creator.

By: Wayne Johnson

Wayne Johnson — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:09:06 +0000

I rarely have a snigger at my desk. However, your Flash comment made me laugh. Thanks from a Flash sceptic.

By: Benny

Benny — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:58:28 +0000

That’s a sure winner tool for webbie layout. Should have known this for 2 days ago where I sat quite a long time nursing guides!

Next step would be Character Styles to make changes to chunks af text easy.