Photoshop users have long requested support for angled guides. (But hey, 26 years in, what\u2019s the rush, amirite?) I\u2019d always ask why people wanted these, and a lot of the time it was to aid with drawing in perspective. Rather than simply let traditional PS guides be rotated, I proposed the following:<\/p>\n
Obviously all this can be filed in the Tolstoy-length volume Sh*t I Never Got Implemented In Photoshop<\/em>, but whatevs.<\/p>\n It all came back to mind when seeing Mopholio\u2019s Stencil<\/a>, “a new customizable tool for digital drawing, which works as a tool inside the popular Trace App.\u201d Check it out:<\/p>\n
![here\u2019s a screenshot<\/a>. The\u00a0overlay can be moved independent of the canvas.<\/li>\nAllow users to transform 2D and 3D objects to use as stencils\u2014e.g. moving, scaling, and rotating parallel lines (which could be made to converge), French curves, etc.<\/li>\nMake drawing tools snap to these shapes, allowing them to be used for tracing.<\/li>\nAlternately let them be used as stencils, letting you draw inside or outside them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nObviously all this can be filed in the Tolstoy-length volume Sh*t I Never Got Implemented In Photoshop<\/em>, but whatevs.<\/p>\nIt all came back to mind when seeing Mopholio\u2019s Stencil<\/a>, “a new customizable tool for digital drawing, which works as a tool inside the popular Trace App.\u201d Check it out:<\/p>\n](\"https:\/\/helpx.adobe.com\/photoshop\/using\/essential-3d-concepts-tools-photoshop\/_jcr_content\/main-pars\/image_2.img.png\/ti_3Dwidget.png\"){kind=link}