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Illustrator-style guidelines capabilities in Photoshop is a feature request that has been made for every version of PS for as long as I've been visiting these forums. And that's been 10+ years.

Some guidelines enhancements that have been consistently suggested:
� Rotational capability
� Individually selectable, with...
� Repostioning via numeric input, and by arrow-key nudging
� Groupable with individual layers, and...
� Color selectability individually, and/or for each group of guidelines
� Visibility toggle for each group of guidelines
� "Virtual" guideline set(s) that could travel along with an image, between applications.
� Path-to-guideline conversion

The most direct feedback�from a respected PS engineer�I've ever seen about the request(s) has been something along the lines of:"You may think it's just an easy matter of grabbing the Illustrator code for guidelines and shoehorning it into Photoshop's code. But it's more difficult than that."

OK, fine, I accept that there's far more to adding a feature into an application than simply grabbing code from somewhere else and pasting it into the existing PS codebase. Believe it or not, even this code-averse artist understands the nature of the difficulty. But I've also done enough reading (and have had enough direct experience with computing in general) to know that the request is far from impossible.

But holy smokes, man, it's been 10+ years of constant requests for this class of upgrade to the feature. There's the implication that�even though many people have requested a radical improvement of the guidelines features�it's just not worth devoting any effort to, that adding gee-whiz "BIG" features are more important than a productivity enhancement that many people would use every day.

I also understand how an enhancement of this nature is not something that lends itself well to any sort of flowery marketing hype; It's just not "amazing" in the way vanishing point, liquefy, or video features are (to name a few), and as such offers little to hang a marketing hat on to.

But I bloody guarantee you'd hear the cheers ring out around the world if this insignificant, nondescript, boring little productivity enhancement were added to the application.