KENT: Hi my name is Kent
I'm the creative specialist on the Google Web Designer team
and I'd like to demonstrate guide
layers
Guide layers will not be published in your file
and are used to
add notes, create a blueprint
or disable alternate designs
For example I might be
working on an ad like this
and I want to get everything in the right position
An easy way to do so is to bring in an image of the final design
and make it a
guide by right-clicking and select Guide layer
Then I see the blue selection outline turns
orange
and I see the guide icons in the layers and Outliner panels
Now I move it
to the bottom layer
and sometimes it's helpful to fade back the opacity of your guide
so it's easier to tell it from the real elements
and I can nudge things
into the exact location
I can even set font sizes this way
Note my guide layer is not just hidden
it's removed from the published document
so the user won't be downloading heavy
images I'm using for guides
which can help save a lot of file size in your ads
Another way to use guide layers is to add notes to your doc
like a reminder or
instructions to a teammate
For example I'll create a text box
make it a guide layer then paste in my message
and I won't have to worry about this being
seen in my published file
Guide layers can also be used to try out different ideas in your file
You can turn these elements into guide
layers
which won't delete them entirely from your doc
in case you change your
mind later
and this may be handy when an
alternate idea involves more complexity
Note you can wrap multiple elements in a
container
and then hide the whole thing
For example I'll combine both text
elements into a single div
by selecting them and right-clicking to choose Wrap
then rename this container
and another way to create a guide layer
is to right-click the layer name in the Timeline to see the same context menu
and I can preview to confirm both text elements are removed
So when an element
is made a guide layer
then everything nested inside that element
is also removed from your published document
That does it for guide layers
Thanks for
watching!
