making guides print

Hi,

I have a gridwork of guides laid on an image, and would like to have those guide 'lines' print with the image. Is there a way to stroke the guides?

As far as I can find, the only way to do this is to turn the guides into slices. But then if I select all the slices and stroke, it strokes only the outline of the whole grid, not the individual interior lines. I would have to select each slice individually and stroke it and there are a LOT of slices resuling from this grid.

Is there another way?

thanks,
NJ

N Jacobs wrote:

Hi,

I have a gridwork of guides laid on an image, and would like to have those guide 'lines' print with the image. Is there a way to stroke the guides?
As far as I can find, the only way to do this is to turn the guides into slices. But then if I select all the slices and stroke, it strokes only the outline of the whole grid, not the individual interior lines. I would have to select each slice individually and stroke it and there are a LOT of slices resuling from this grid.

Is there another way?

thanks,
NJ

No. You have to make a grid of your own. Not too hard.

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Hi,

I have a gridwork of guides laid on an image, and would like to have those guide 'lines' print with the image. Is there a way to stroke the guides?

This is one in which you might want to cut an action to create your favorite grid. Set up your guides, then record the creation of a grid using the line tool to draw over them (constraining the angle using the Shift-Drag thing). Then whenever you need it, hit that action.

A very dirty trick is to create the guides, then take a scree-shot, then File - New - (default will be clipboard), paste and then crop to the object. Very dirty, quick... *shudder*.

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Hi,

I have a gridwork of guides laid on an image, and would like to have those guide 'lines' print with the image. Is there a way to stroke the guides?
As far as I can find, the only way to do this is to turn the guides into slices. But then if I select all the slices and stroke, it strokes only the outline of the whole grid, not the individual interior lines. I would have to select each slice individually and stroke it and there are a LOT of slices resuling from this grid.

Is there another way?

thanks,
NJ

Directly in PS, probably not. However, if you turn on the Grid (View>Grid), Save the PSD, then Open that in Painter (at least up to v7), you will have the Grid as part of the image. Though Painter (any vers) is NOT the best printing engine, you can do an acceptable job for what you need. Now, one possible option might be to just Open in Painter, then Save_As Tif (maybe the Grid will still be there, as part of the image), and then Open -> Print from PS. All of this assumes, however, that you have access to Painter.

One possible solution to this, if the Save(d) TIF has the Grid, would be for someone who has Painter, to do this for you. If you don't have a ton of images, I'd be glad to check out the process, and try and Save with Grid for you.

Hunt

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Hi,

I have a gridwork of guides laid on an image, and would like to have those guide 'lines' print with the image. Is there a way to stroke the guides?
As far as I can find, the only way to do this is to turn the guides into slices. But then if I select all the slices and stroke, it strokes only the outline of the whole grid, not the individual interior lines. I would have to select each slice individually and stroke it and there are a LOT of slices resuling from this grid.

Is there another way?

thanks,
NJ

Directly in PS, probably not. However, if you turn on the Grid (View>Grid), Save the PSD, then Open that in Painter (at least up to v7), you will have

the

Grid as part of the image. Though Painter (any vers) is NOT the best printing engine, you can do an acceptable job for what you need. Now, one possible option might be to just Open in Painter, then Save_As Tif (maybe the Grid

will

still be there, as part of the image), and then Open -> Print from PS. All of this assumes, however, that you have access to Painter.

One possible solution to this, if the Save(d) TIF has the Grid, would be for someone who has Painter, to do this for you. If you don't have a ton of images, I'd be glad to check out the process, and try and Save with Grid for you.

Hunt

Just checked in Painter v8 on laptop, and the Guides do not come into Painter. I will try with v5-7 at the office on Monday, and let you know if this still is the case. I also used CS2 -> Painter 8, so it might be a different way of handling Guides in PS. In the "old days" PS's Guides were part of the image, when brought into Painter. I may have lied to you, thinking of how things " used" to be. More on Monday.

Hunt

"N Jacobs" wrote:

Hi,

I have a gridwork of guides laid on an image, and would like to have those guide 'lines' print with the image. Is there a way to stroke the guides?
As far as I can find, the only way to do this is to turn the guides into slices. But then if I select all the slices and stroke, it strokes only the outline of the whole grid, not the individual interior lines. I would have to select each slice individually and stroke it and there are a LOT of slices resuling from this grid.

Is there another way?

thanks,
NJ

There is a pretty fast workaround: With the single column selection tool, select all vertical guides with the shift key pressed. Then, with the single row selection tool select all horizontal guides, again with the shift key pressed. The selections will follow the guidelines exactly as long as you have the "snap to guides" option enabled. By holding the shift key, each new selection is added to the others and finally all guides are selected. Now you can stroke the selection as usual.

Peter