I’m following a tutorial on CS5 and can’t get something to work. I want to make a guide out of a curved path – a heart. I have two layers: one contains the drawing with the sublayer containing the heart; the other layer contains all my guides as sublayers. I select the drawing sublayer that contains the heart and copy it. I go to my guides layer and select the sublayer I want to insert the heart in front of. Then I go to Edit > Paste in front. But instead of pasting in front of the guide sublayer selected, the heart is placed as the first sublayer of the drawing layer.
I can get the effect I want by using the drawing mode Draw Behind and selecting a different sublayer, but I can’t get it to work using Paste in Front. BTW, the same thing happens when I try Paste in Back or Paste in Place, or CtrlV – the heart always appears in the drawing layer, not the guide layer.
All my guides are unlocked, both in the layers panel and in the view menu. I’m not using smart guides. The drawing mode is set to Draw Normal. I can’t find anything to change in Preferences would seem to relate to this problem. I can’t figure out any other modes or menu options to check. I’m sure I’ve got “something” “somewhere” set differently than the tutorial, but I can’t figure out what.
I can get the effect I want by using the drawing mode Draw Behind and selecting a different sublayer, but I can’t get it to work using Paste in Front. BTW, the same thing happens when I try Paste in Back or Paste in Place, or CtrlV – the heart always appears in the drawing layer, not the guide layer.
All my guides are unlocked, both in the layers panel and in the view menu. I’m not using smart guides. The drawing mode is set to Draw Normal. I can’t find anything to change in Preferences would seem to relate to this problem. I can’t figure out any other modes or menu options to check. I’m sure I’ve got “something” “somewhere” set differently than the tutorial, but I can’t figure out what.