Smart Guides

Smart Guides are temporary snap‑to guides that appear when you create or manipulate objects or artboards. They help you align, edit, and transform objects or artboards relative to other objects, artboards, or both by snap-aligning and displaying X, Y location, and delta values., this is a very useful feature to create the great composition.

For example, smart guides helps you to position the object in the center of the canvas.


Or something like this.

For example, Photoshop, Illustrator, Gravit Designer and Figma (maybe something else) have a Smart Guides feature and it’s very helps to save the time, but this feature more appropriate for the design tool than to digital painting, but i think this very useful feature and it will be simplify the making of beautiful composition in Krita.

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Yes! I have been wanting this too! :grin: It’s one of the few reasons I don’t use Krita for designwork. I would love to use Krita for designs and such, but the lack of this feature makes it hard to use Krita for that.

I use Affinity Photo from time to time because it has this feature, but I sometimes wish Affinity Photo had Krita’s features and brushes, since I like to do some brushwork in my designs

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Man, I do really want this feature to be implemented. I need it for backgrounds or to create patterns etc

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That is a good use case. It will also be somewhwt helpful in planning illustrations for book covers etc

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I don’t know how difficult it could be to implement it, but I hope that we could get that feauture in the future >.< It would make my life way easier

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This is very helpful for typography

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Yes I have had the same need.

Well I had started making a new plugin that will edit guides too strangely enough. but I am not sure if I can render it all like that. Rendering on the canvas is something that still eludes me.

I have been more upset with a super crazy bug I found that to see you really need to be looking for it. I need to do a report today when I get to the pc.

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Yes please! It’s very time consuming to be doing by hand what smart guides help do in an instant.

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Yes please! :crossed_fingers:t2: