Add smart guides, snapping & guides like in Illustrator

Illustrator has done it right.
- dragging guides out of the rulers is easy
- guides snap and show relations via smart guides
- guides can be selected and moves via the keyboard & the position value can be easily adjusted in pixels
- smart guides help when positioning and resizing layers
- snapping helps to change the origin for the ruler
- elements snap to guides

Its also an Abobe tool, so please copy this behaviour over. In comparison illustrator feels like a very old, outdated software, even though you obviously know how to do it right.

Cheers

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Lukas Oppermann shared this idea · Aug 14, 2018 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

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Kashyap Bhatia commented · July 1, 2020 12:56 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Yes and also guide layouts like in Photoshop, just being able to make guide setups for rule of 3 for example would make compositions in AE so much easier.

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Sebastian Eisenberg commented · July 1, 2020 8:56 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Yes, for sure!

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Roel Belmans commented · July 1, 2020 12:46 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Yes please!!!

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Brandon Winslow commented · June 30, 2020 3:42 PM · Flag as inappropriate

YESSSSSSS!

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Will Hunt commented · June 30, 2020 3:11 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Yes please!

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Ryan Elliott commented · June 30, 2020 2:55 PM · Flag as inappropriate

This would be fantastic!

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Constantinos Spetsiotis commented · June 30, 2020 9:31 AM · Flag as inappropriate

YES!

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Chip Nash commented · June 30, 2020 9:21 AM · Flag as inappropriate

This would be a huge plus. 100% behind this

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Jake Bartlett commented · June 30, 2020 8:40 AM · Flag as inappropriate

This is probably my top desired feature. Creating and modifying vectors in AE should be similar, if not identical, to Illustrator.

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Ludwig Tomaschko commented · January 23, 2020 3:35 AM · Flag as inappropriate

especially guides that snap to objects --> snap totheir bounding box, mask points, shapelayer points, intersections betwween other objects.....

like in Ai

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David Lindgren commented · April 16, 2019 6:46 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Make it possible to open guides you've saved in Premiere Pro.
That would be awesome! :)

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Chris FitzGerald commented · October 12, 2018 1:56 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Could not agree more Lukas!

Adobe has perfected a lot of great tool in Id , Ai and ID 0- Ive never understood why they dont share technologies with Ae.

Especially Ae and PSD since they are both pixel based.

Hopefully realistic rulers that users can type in X and Y values as you said gets added soon.

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RaeTracer commented · September 19, 2018 7:29 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Yeah I would love some more features for guides because they're so useful. Colors and labels too please!

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