September 05, 2003
Photoshop Feature Request
As a mostly self-taught web designer who uses Photoshop every day I sometimes wish for things that the program cannot yet do. Recently I realized that it would make my life a whole lot easier if I could assign a set of guidelines to a specific Layer or specific Layer Set.
This way, whenever I hand off a Photoshop file to a web site builder, that person can then turn Layer Sets on and off, each having its own set of color-coded guidelines that relate only to that part of the overall site design. Compared to what we have now, which is a single color (which is changeable) of guidelines which apply across all layers within a file. As you may have noticed, once you get past about 8-10 horizontal and vertical guidelines, they start becoming less effective and more of a visual nuisance. See example image:
Knowing Adobe, they likely have this feature already rolled into their next release. If not, they should give it some thought because it would make the life of a web designer using Photoshop much better.
Posted by Cameron Barrett at September 5, 2003 09:38 PMI've been thinking the exact same thing for quite a while myself. Unfortunately though, I doubt it's a planned feature, unless I'm mistaking the guides haven't been improved upon since their introduction.
Posted by: Tomas at September 6, 2003 07:18 AM
would be nice though, also angled guides....
and decent type rendering!
if i'm doing screenshots for pitch work i find it better to build the proposed HTML type as is, then screen grab it, paste it in as a new layer - this produces much more accurate results.
Posted by: jim at September 6, 2003 02:30 PM
I've been saying this since Photoshop 4. I have even emailed and snail mailed my comment to Adobe...finally someone else who understands the benefits!
Posted by: csolyn at September 6, 2003 08:57 PM
