jackamus Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 How do you select, say a rectangular object, that is bounded by 4 guides without selecting the guide? At the moment I have to move one of the guides in order to select the object. What would be useful is to use another key (object selection only) whilst selecting with the mouse. Quote If voting made any difference it wouldn't be allowed! Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools. To be ignorant of world happenings is forgivable - to be willingly ignorant is unforgivable. Mac OS Monterey 12.6.4 AD version 2.0.4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe_l Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 6 minutes ago, jackamus said: At the moment I have to move one of the guides in order to select the object. a) Select it from the Layers panel. b) Select it with the Node tool. c) Filled objects by just clicking on them with the Move tool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaffeeundsalz Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 You can also very quickly toggle guide visibility with Cmd+; (or whatever keyboard shortcut you've assigned to it). When guides are not visible, you can't accidentally select them. joe_l 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackamus Posted September 6 Author Share Posted September 6 32 minutes ago, joe_l said: a) Select it from the Layers panel. b) Select it with the Node tool. c) Filled objects by just clicking on them with the Move tool. Yes thanks the Node tool did the trick. No need to mess about with the layers panel. Quote If voting made any difference it wouldn't be allowed! Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools. To be ignorant of world happenings is forgivable - to be willingly ignorant is unforgivable. Mac OS Monterey 12.6.4 AD version 2.0.4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 Another way is to use View > Lock Guides. To make it quicker you could assign it a keyboard shortcut. Also useful if you want to keep from accidentally moving a guide when using the Move Tool.... Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V23.0 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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