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The first article covered PrefixFree; the second introduced Foundation, a responsive framework; the third presented Sisyphus.js, a library for Gmail-like client-side drafts. Today we are happy to present Cameron McEfee's Photoshop extension GuideGuide which provides a tool to create pixel accurate columns, rows, midpoints and baselines.
Take a moment and think about creating a multi-column grid in a Photoshop comp. Have your palms started to sweat? Yes, creating grids in Photoshop is a pain indeed. Some designers just estimate and drag guides arbitrarily onto the stage. Others draw vector shapes, duplicate them to represent columns, then stretch them to fit their design. The hardy few who don’t say things like, “I’m a designer, not a mathematician,” generally use a little math and logic to calculate their grid. If you were to boil that math down, it probably ends up looking something like this:
I was sitting at my desk one day doing this exact equation when I thought, “Man, this looks just like code. I wish someone would make a plugin that would do this for me.” Several months and many grids later, it occurred to me that I could probably build the plugin myself.
Enter: GuideGuide
I created GuideGuide for the sole purpose of making one of the most time consuming parts of Photoshop based design as easy as possible. Enter in a few numbers and GuideGuide will draw a grid on your document using Photoshop’s guides. You’ll become drunk with power the first time you watch it happen, I promise. Even better, GuideGuide’s real power is Photoshop’s marquee. If you have an active selection in your Photoshop document, GuideGuide creates the grid you specify within the selection’s boundaries. Anything GuideGuide can do, can be done using either the document or a selection.
Columns and Rows
Designing a site that needs multiple columns and gutters? GuideGuide has your back.
Midpoints
GuideGuide makes finding the midpoint of items within your design a breeze. Simply draw a selection or ⌘ + click (ctrl + click on Windows) to create a selection around the item you want to find the midpoint of. To find its midpoint, click one of the midpoint buttons.
GuideGuide places a guide at the midpoint of the selection. Now you can easily center align elements under the original item.
Save It For Later
If you find yourself frequently using the same grid over and over, you can save it as a set for later use.
The Fun Part
Sure, GuideGuide has its basic rows, columns and midpoints, but with a little creativity it can do a whole lot more.
Measure Navigation
I hate figuring out how wide a navigation element needs to be to evenly fit across the width of a site. Instead, I let GuideGuide do the work for me.
- Make a selection the width of your site
- Enter your info, thinking of the columns field as the number of navigation items and the gutter field as the space you want between each item (if you want it).
Element Padding
Want to draw a box around an item but don’t feel like measuring it out exactly?
⌘+click(ctrl+clickon Windows) the item to make a selection around it.- Enter a negative margin in one of GuideGuide’s margin fields, and click the icon next to it. GuideGuide will fill that value into all the margin fields.
- Use the newly placed guides to draw your box.
Baseline Grid
Using GuideGuide’s explicit row height, you can easily create a baseline grid for your design.
- Enter your desired line height in the row height field.
- Align your type and other elements to your new baseline grid.
Thoughts?
Do you have an unconventional use for GuideGuide? Post it in the comments of this post. I love hearing the clever and unusual ways people use GuideGuide. Found a bug or have a feature request? If you’d like to request a feature or have found something that is broken, please create an issue on GuideGuide’s support repo over on GitHub.
To download GuideGuide and learn more about some of its hidden features, head on over to guideguide.me. OS X Lion users with CS5 will need to download a patch for Adobe Extension Manager before they will be able to install GuideGuide.
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Almost five years ago, I had the honor of writing a post on Smashing Magazine about my Photoshop panel GuideGuide. Since then it has seen wild success as the most installed third-party Photoshop extension, an achievement I’m quite proud. In that time, I’ve added some powerful features and, most recently, expanded it to Illustrator. This post will give you a taste of how GuideGuide can change the way you use guides in Photoshop and Illustrator.
If you’re one of the many people who already use GuideGuide, please read on. You may discover some unconventional uses that are not immediately apparent. I’ll provide a overview of the major features, and then give some examples of advanced and unusual ways it can be used to make you a more efficient designer.
Further Reading on SmashingMag:
While I’m going to focus this post on Illustrator, nearly everything is applicable to Photoshop as well.
Please note that at the time of the original Smashing Magazine post, GuideGuide was a free extension. It now costs $10 (you can read about why I chose to do this), and it supports Photoshop and Illustrator CC+. To try it for yourself, you can download a special Smashing Magazine edition of the GuideGuide trial. It is fully featured for the first 90 times you use it to add guides.
System Requirements
This tutorial uses GuideGuide 4, which supports Photoshop and Illustrator CC and later. If you have Photoshop CS5 or CS6, you can still download GuideGuide 3 for free, which works but lacks some of the features mentioned in this article. Older versions of Illustrator are not supported.
Installation of Adobe extensions is notoriously unpredictable. I’ve done my best to make the process smooth with the included installer and documentation, but if you have issues, you’re always welcome to contact me for support.
The Basics
Grids are one of the fundamentals of design, regardless of the tools you use. Chris Brauckmuller’s article, while a bit dated, is a great quick overview to grids on the web, and Making and Breaking the Grid deserves a place on every design bookshelf. Many artists and designers have lamented that Photoshop and Illustrator suffer from a lack of grid features. GuideGuide fills this void by automatically doing the complicated math necessary to produce grids, making your design life easier.
I’ve written this post using inches for measurement, but GuideGuide works with all measurement types supported by Illustrator and Photoshop.
A Basic Grid
Imagine you are preparing an 11 × 8.5-inch document for a trifold brochure, with 0.5-inch margins, a 0.125-inch bleed and a baseline grid. Once you’re a GuideGuide expert, it will be possible to create this grid in a single action; however, I’m going to break it down into steps to illustrate some of GuideGuide’s features.
With a freshly created document open, the first thing to do is add columns. By default, GuideGuide will use the selected artboard as its reference. Enter 3 in the column-count field, and hit “Add guides.”
Next, we’ll add margins to each column. GuideGuide can use a selected object as its reference; so, create a rectangle that is the size of one of the columns, select it, add .5in in each of the margin fields, and then click “Add guides.” Repeat this process for each column, and leave the shapes in the document for now.
I mentioned earlier that we’re going to add bleed guides to the document. In this example, we don’t want to use the built-in bleed setting. GuideGuide supports negative values in the form fields, which will allow you to create guides outside of the context. Deselect any shapes you have selected, then put -0.125in in the margin fields, and click “Add guides.”
Now that we have our bleed guides, we can expand the artboard to fit them.
Next, we will add a midpoint guide to each column. If you left the column shapes in the document like I suggested, then select the first shape, and use the vertical “Midpoint” quick-guide button at the bottom of the panel. Repeat this for each column.
If you like to keep things clean and organized, it’s worth noting that GuideGuide adds guides to the active layer (only Illustrator supports layer-specific guides). If you plan ahead, you can create different parts of your grid on separate layers, so that you can turn them on and off independently as needed.
For example, let’s add a baseline grid. Create a new layer named “Baseline grid” and select it. Type 16pts into the row height field. When you leave the row count field blank, GuideGuide will automatically fill the screen with rows until it runs out of space. By adding the guides to the selected “Baseline grid” layer, you can turn them on and off separately from your main grid by toggling the layer visibility.
Getting Down To Business
Now that we’ve covered the easy on-the-fly features, let’s dig into some uses of GuideGuide that are super-powerful but require a little thinking ahead.
Grid Notation
If you fill out some values in the “Form” tab and then click the “Custom” tab, you will find something that looks a little like a programming language. This is grid notation, a language you can use in the “Custom” tab (and in the “Form” tab to a certain extent) to tell GuideGuide about your grids. In fact, every feature works by using grid notation under the hood.
Here is a quick introduction. The most important part of grid notation is the pipe character, |. It tells GuideGuide to “put a guide here.” Next is a command, that says “move over this much.” If you put a bunch of these together, GuideGuide will read it from left to right, interpreting it as “Add a guide, move over, add a guide, move over, add a guide.” You can read all about grid notation in the documentation, including about the commands that help with computation, such as variables and fills.
For now, I will show you one of the most important grid notation commands, the wildcard ~. GuideGuide equally divides whatever space isn’t accounted for in the grid between each wildcard. Practically speaking, this is how GuideGuide calculates the width of columns and rows. For example, | ~ | ~ | ~ | would be a three-column grid.
You may be wondering, if the GuideGuide form can already do all of this, why bother? Consider the common web design pattern of pairing icons with paragraphs.
Visualize this pattern across the x-axis. There is a bit of space for the page’s margin, the width of the icon, another margin, the width of the paragraph, and then the margin before the next instance of this pattern.
If you are designing a responsive website this way, then you probably know the width of the icon but not of the paragraph. This is where the wildcard is useful. In this example, the document’s margins and gutters are 40 pixels, the icon’s width is 60 pixels, the space between the paragraph is 10 pixels, and the column’s widths are unknown but should be equal to one another. This can be expressed in grid notation like so:
GuideGuide adds up the commands that have an explicit value and subtracts that from the width of the available space. It then splits the remaining area between the wildcards. The result will look like this:
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Grid Notation in Fields
Grid notation in its raw form is powerful, but you’ll often want the convenience of the grid form with just a little bit of that power. For example, what if you want your gutters to have a midpoint? Easy! Just use grid notation. To create a 40-pixel gutter with a midpoint, add 20px | 20px to the gutter-width field.
GuideGuide supports basic notation in any field that allows for a measurement input. Going back to the example from earlier, you can create the same effect with the form and a grid notation:
Grid notation is super-useful and is a great way to create and share complicated grids, like the preset grids based on Bootstrap created by Christophor Wilson.
Getting Weird Guides
With a combination of the form and grid notation, GuideGuide can do almost anything. Going back to our original example of a trifold brochure, the entire grid that I created in multiple steps can actually be done with one.
It’s even possible to save a grid as a preset to reuse or share with someone.
The Golden Ratio
While GuideGuide is meant to spare you from doing calculations, some grids benefit from a little math, like a 3 × 3 grid whose guides in the center indicate the golden ratio. I avoid doing math whenever I can, so a quick search tells me that the golden ratio expressed as percentages is 38.2% and 61.8%. I also know that subtracting one value from 100% will give me the other; so, if I type 38.2% for each margin, voila! A golden-ratio grid.
The Fibonacci Sequence
To drive home my point that you can do almost anything, how about a grid based on the Fibonacci sequence? I’m going to base the grid on percentages, and the Fibonacci values under 100% are 1%, 1%, 2%, 3%, 5%, 8%, 13%, 21%, 34%, 55%, 89%. We don’t need two guides at 1%; we can leave off the second 1%.
While this seems pretty straightforward, we have to make an adjustment in order for the grid to be accurate. Each command tells GuideGuide to move over; so, each guide’s coordinates are the sum of all commands given up to that point. For example, to express 8% in the sequence, you’d use 3%, which is 8% minus the sum of all values before it. Confused? That’s OK. If you try it a few times, you’ll get the hang of it.
Once all of the adjustments have been made, this grid notation string will give you a Fibonacci grid:
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You can paste that in the “Custom” form, or, if you look at the presets in the “Saved” tab, you’ll see that it’s one of the defaults.
Getting Excited?
I hope you’ve found this GuideGuide guide guide helpful. As I mentioned at the beginning of this post, you can download a special Smashing Magazine edition of the GuideGuide trial, which lasts three times longer than the standard trial.