Making vertical/horizontal guide permanent?

[shorte85]

I was wondering if there is a way to make it so that when I open a new canvas in gimp, that the center horizontal guide and vertical guide lines are already there automatically without having to do it manually? I tried looking in the preferences settings, but not sure if I was looking in the right area or not.

Thanks.

[rich2005]

No way from standard Gimp options. Two possibilities.

1) Use a script to set the guides: The simplest is here: Greggs crosshairs  https://www.gimp-forum.net/attachment.php?aid=4171  There are others.
That registers in the layers menu. To avoid the menu assign a keyboard shortcut key.

   

2) If the canvas size is constant. Make a blank canvas. Set the center line guides. Save the canvas as a Gimp .xcf . All guides / layers / channels / active selections ... are saved. Instead of Image -> New Open the  .xcf you made.

[shorte85]

Oh my god, thank you so much! That makes it so much easier and quicker. I appreciate it!