Guide Lines

[rsrobbins]

There is one Photoshop feature that I really miss in Paint.NET, guide lines. In Photoshop you can drag guide lines out from the ruler to help the crop tool to snap to a precise area. Guide lines are also useful for aligning selections that you are trying to drag into place. I don't think that guide lines are a difficult feature to implement so I hope the developers will consider adding guide lines to Paint.NET.

[Goonfella]

You can always add your guide lines on a separate layer above the one you are working on. Then when you are done just hide or delete the layer. I know what you mean though. Doing it this way in PDN still doesn`t address the problem of being able to snap selections into place.

[BoltBait]

I don't think

Exactly.

that guide lines are a difficult feature to implement

Rick's not gonna like reading that.

Unless you have an intimate knowledge of the Paint.NET code base AND your name is Rick Brewster, don't presume to know how difficult a feature would be to implement. Seriously.

[Rick Brewster]

And don't assume the presence or lack of a feature has anything to do with "difficulty."

[rsrobbins]

I am a programmer myself. I bet I could add guide lines to a simple graphics program. Oh snap!

[pyrochild]

Then go write your own graphics program.

Closed

[Rick Brewster]

I am a programmer myself. I bet I could add guide lines ...

Nobody said you couldn't. Nobody said I couldn't, either, although you do seem to be looking for an excuse at machismo.

... to a simple graphics program.

There is more to adding a feature than just the lines of code you barf out in a weekend that implement it. Simplicity and complexity, in software development anyway, is hardly a one-dimensional property.

Oh snap!

Oh snap, indeed. user banned