Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Global Photoshop guides... how about local?
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 
I am working on GUI designs and I am building views into the Photoshop file. Each folder contains a view in a larger system. I am using guides to determine pixel placements, etc. However, guides are global, and my views are not.
While in general global guides are extremely useful, it would be cool to have sets of them. By default, guides would indeed maintain their global status. Right-clicking on a guide would bring up a menu of items: Global, list of folders, possibly layers. In this way, if you turned a folder off, layer off, etc. the guide(s) associated with that folder/guide would disappear too when guide view was turned on.
In this way you could have different sets of guides associated directly with different material.
How would this work for slicing? Perhaps only visible guides at the time of slicing would be considered (actually, I think it would have to work this way). What are your thoughts?
Update:
I was thinking, what about "guide layers" - like in Flash, but they are reserved for guides only, and you could apply colors to the layers that would reflect on the guides themselves. This way you could slap some guides on a guide layer, then place that inside a folder. Turn off the folder, you turn off the guides in that folder too.
While in general global guides are extremely useful, it would be cool to have sets of them. By default, guides would indeed maintain their global status. Right-clicking on a guide would bring up a menu of items: Global, list of folders, possibly layers. In this way, if you turned a folder off, layer off, etc. the guide(s) associated with that folder/guide would disappear too when guide view was turned on.
In this way you could have different sets of guides associated directly with different material.
How would this work for slicing? Perhaps only visible guides at the time of slicing would be considered (actually, I think it would have to work this way). What are your thoughts?
Update:
I was thinking, what about "guide layers" - like in Flash, but they are reserved for guides only, and you could apply colors to the layers that would reflect on the guides themselves. This way you could slap some guides on a guide layer, then place that inside a folder. Turn off the folder, you turn off the guides in that folder too.
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Og2t said...“Try using Fireworks instead. It's much nicer for creating website mock-ups and you can use symbols from the library (like Flash), scalable bitmaps (after you scale down the image it's not being resampled as in Photoshop), etc.”
