Last week one of our intern designers asked me if there was any way to copy and paste adobe Photoshop guides from one Photoshop document to another.

I answered: sure, I will try it and get back to you, but the easy way is to save a template with guides and use it every time you start a new file for that size.

She replied: I know but I want to use it to fix the alignment in existing files not new ones; and copying layers to a new file for every image takes much time! and I already found a video talking about that, but in the video they are using some codes and I didn't know what to do!

After some research I didn't find a way to achieve that so I watched the video she mentioned before (Video Link) , they are using a script to copy and paste guides so I downloaded the script file and added it to the adobe Photoshop scripts folder and tried it as it shows in the video but it didn't work!

So I opened the script and started reading and found out that I should press "Shift" button in the keyboard when copying and guess what it's working!

but I edited the script a bit,  I split the script into 2 script files one to do the copying and another for the paste.

Now I will show you how to do that. list start :

1. all you need to do is download the 2 files
• Guides Copy.jsx
• Guides Paste.jsx
2. open adobe Photoshop installation folder 
   for me it's "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2020"
3. then go to "Presets" folder then "Scripts" folder.
4. the final location will be "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2020\Presets\Scripts"
5. now copy the 2 scripts to this location

and we are done.

to use it :

• run the Photoshop 

• open the 2 documents (the one you will copy the guides from and the one you need to paste the guides on)

• select the first document and click from menu : File > Scripts > Guides Copy.

• then select the second document and click from menu : File > Scripts > Guides Paste.

• and that will copy the guides from the first document to the second one.

• also you can view the video below for the installation steps and usage.