CS4 – switching off the guide line

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d_cole
Oct 29, 2008
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When I open an image a guide line appears horizontally above the image in the gray background frame. I don’t see an option to switch off the guide as default. Have I missed this? You can clear the guide easily enough but I’d like an option to stop it altogether. I have changed the colour to light gray so it is unobtrusive but it would be helpful to get rid of it.

Strangely, I have the same problem in Dreamweaver CS3. Guide lines always appear on open pages. Can’t get rid of those either.

Thanks.

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Mathias_Vejerslev
Oct 29, 2008
Guides are saved along with an image. Are you sure you are seeing this on every image?
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John Joslin
Oct 29, 2008
They are probably not real guides but may be an artifact from your video card.

What happens when you Select Hide Guides?
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Mylenium
Oct 29, 2008
It would seem that somehow your layout templates and/ or document templates are tainted. For Photoshop, some document types such as the video presets will contain pre-arranged guides. You may have created a user preset just the same by using a currently open document as the template when you saved the preset. It would then also contain the guide. Guides in Dreamweaver are mostly tied to tables and DIVs, so check your presets as well. Also check your "Visual Aids" section in the view menu in DW. you may actually be seeing some live measuring or placeholder for invisible elements.

Mylenium
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d_cole
Oct 30, 2008
Thank you very much. I’ll have to get my head round this and deal with the Dreamweaver problem separately – I do have some templates I have created.

In Photoshop CS4, the thin horizontal line does not appear with every image – I was wrong about that. Only some.

When it does appear it can be cleared using the the View/Clear Guides command.

If you save the document having Cleared the line, the next time you open the image the line is gone.

So you are right that it is in some way linked to the particular image. It is nothing to do with my video card.

I don’t think I have created any user presets or templates in Photoshop CS4 – I’ve only just started checking it all out and all I have loaded are some tool presets and patterns.

It’s not the end of the world but I’d like to stop it if I can.

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