Guides in Designer could be impoved

[Zero Zero]

​Firstly congratulations on both Affinity Designer and Photo. I love what Serif is achieving here which is why I bought them both. I started using Designer for a project (instead of Corel Draw) and enjoyed using it. However I found using the Guides awkward and unfriendly. Clicking on a guide to select it should change its color immediately, a numerical readout should be available on screen (this happens only when it's moved), also with the "Guides Manager" open onscreen, clicking on a Guide does not highlight it in the Manager. With many guides in a project this is most annoying and needs some loving attention. Thank you.

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[MEB]

Hi Pixelate,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

Thanks for your feedback. Both guides, grids and snapping should receive more improvements as we move forward.

[NobleValerian]

As a reference point for success, back when I was using Photoshop for everything, this was the MOST valuable plugin I had, and I used it for nearly every single project.

http://guideguide.me/

Eventually, Adobe implemented their own system I think, but one of the most useful features was setting up guides relative to a selection.  Like being able to set a half inch margin all the way around the document and then have seven equally spaced rows within those margins.  There doesn't seem to be any reasonably friendly way to do this in either photo or designer, with grids or guides.