I can't wait to see the "tips and tricks" you are working onīecause it sounds like those will help things all come together. Rick! First I've got to say thank you for all the information you "This is really a truly generous and very admirable website!" - Cheers, Jonas "Thank you for this site! I found it through one of your videos on YouTube. I bought the Dummiesīook, and it's OK, but I do better by watching instead of reading. Love your videos! They have been such a BIG help. Very very clearĪnd useful tips, tricks and techniques of how-to in PSE9. Tutorials (especially with my scrapbooking obsession)" - Judy in MSĭay Rick, "I very appreciate ALL, ALL of your tutos. Information for using Photoshop Elements. "I am thrilled to find such useful and easy-to-understand "Watching your tutorials even about things that I think I know I ALWAYS learn something new. Tutorials sites, but yours is by far the clearest and easiest to You can also just click on to them and move the Photoshop guides manually though that defuncts the actual relationship to the original shape."Just a note to say I LOVE your site! There seem to be a few PS Elements Once you have the guides from the new guides command, you can then use them to snap layers etc to the guides etc as well as just aid in the construction of a design (use the snap to command in view menu and guides). Repeat the new guides command and you will get an additional set of guide lines.Īll kinds of complex designs can be created (sadly the guide lines cannot be turned into paths or shapes themselves though that feature is available in Illustrator, just not Photoshop) Guides and use Select a single rectangle shape or custom shape To create a quick set of guides, I generally don't use an unusual custom shape but they are fine but a rectangle shape is just as easy and you can use the alt / option to duplicate the rectangle and rapidly build up any number of guide lines, as you can use the new guides from shape command multiple times. If you have added a stroke to the custom shape then the stroke is also used for the dimensions so if you set a huge stroke, the result will be guides touching a long way from the original shape. If you have an irregular looking shape such as a kettle then the guide will be drawn based on the left, right, top and bottom of the shape. The guides created will be based on the dimensions of the selected shape or shapes. Go to the view menu and the command (at the bottom of the menu) Select the shapes you want Via the document or via the layers panel in Photoshop) You can use the guide feature with a single shape as well as multiple custom shapes but the key thing is that the shape layers are selected. It does not work with the path or pixel option. To use the new guides from the shapes, you can use custom shapes as well as rectangle shapes as well as ellipses etc but the key thing is that you are using the items as shapes. To change the color of the guides, go to the preferences and guides and set the color to pink or green etc Custom shape layers You can also use the view to create a new guide as well as create a grid of guides. You can also use the view menu to clear guides as well as lock the guides (so avoid moving them by accident). Go to the show and you can select the guides to be on or off. To show the guides in Photoshop, use the view menu and show and guides. Guides are a useful feature of Photoshop for aligning layers as well as placing objects.
The tutorial also shows you how to use the shape layers with the generated guides in Photoshop Setup for guides in Photoshop
This tutorials you how to display / show the guides and how to create guides from any selected shape in the document. You align otherPhotoshop layers with the guides. You can then align the shapes with the guides. The Photoshop shape layers can be re-sized and then used to create new guides using the new guides from shape command. Add a custom shape layer and then go to the view menu and new guide from shapes command. You can create guide lines in Photoshop using custom shape layers. To see the guides, go to the view menu and show guides command. You can create Photoshop guides via the view menu. Guides are a super useful feature for Photoshop. How to create quick guides from custom shapes in Photoshop CC. How to create new guides from Photoshop custom shapes tutorial