Make guides from paths

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From: Steve_Fairbairn
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:42

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Often one needs guides made from irregular shapes, not just ruler guides.

The current workaround is to use a path to define a certain area. Trouble with this is that when you want to transform a layer to fit to the path you have to hide the path before you call up the layer transform and then un-hide it again to be able to transform the layer to fit. And the transform bounding box doesn't snap to the path, so you have to zoom all the way in to be able to see the exact positioning of the transform box vis-a-vis the path.

It would be very useful if it were possible to make actual guides, for example by converting a paths to guides, same as you do in Illustrator.

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