Snap and Snap To Guides are imprecisely snapping

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Robert Montgomery
Feb 24, 2010
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In P. C.S.3 (Mac), how can I get selections to snap precisely to the guides?

I have View > Snap checked, and also View > Snap To > Guides checked, and yet the guides and selection rectangles aren’t precisely aligned to the edges of rectangular images and guides.

Robert
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Alan Browne
Feb 25, 2010
On 10-02-24 18:54 , Robert Montgomery wrote:
In P. C.S.3 (Mac), how can I get selections to snap precisely to the guides?

I have View > Snap checked, and also View > Snap To > Guides checked, and yet the guides and selection rectangles aren’t precisely aligned to the edges of rectangular images and guides.

Let go of the CTRL-key?

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Robert Montgomery
Feb 28, 2010
Alan Browne wrote:
On 10-02-24 18:54 , Robert Montgomery wrote:
In P. C.S.3 (Mac), how can I get selections to snap precisely to the guides?

I have View > Snap checked, and also View > Snap To > Guides checked, and yet the guides and selection rectangles aren’t precisely aligned to the edges of rectangular images and guides.

Let go of the CTRL-key?

Thanks, Alan.

I found the answer: View > Show > Grid!

I wish I had discovered this years ago; it would have saved much time and frustration.

Robert
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tony cooper
Feb 28, 2010
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:20:58 GMT, Robert Montgomery
wrote:

Alan Browne wrote:
On 10-02-24 18:54 , Robert Montgomery wrote:
In P. C.S.3 (Mac), how can I get selections to snap precisely to the guides?

I have View > Snap checked, and also View > Snap To > Guides checked, and yet the guides and selection rectangles aren’t precisely aligned to the edges of rectangular images and guides.

Let go of the CTRL-key?

Thanks, Alan.

I found the answer: View > Show > Grid!

I wish I had discovered this years ago; it would have saved much time and frustration.

The short-cut for that is Control H (on a PC)…turns the grid on and back off.

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Alan Browne
Feb 28, 2010
On 10-02-28 10:20 , Robert Montgomery wrote:
Alan Browne wrote:
On 10-02-24 18:54 , Robert Montgomery wrote:
In P. C.S.3 (Mac), how can I get selections to snap precisely to the guides?

I have View > Snap checked, and also View > Snap To > Guides checked, and yet the guides and selection rectangles aren’t precisely aligned to the edges of rectangular images and guides.

Let go of the CTRL-key?

Thanks, Alan.

I found the answer: View > Show > Grid!

I wish I had discovered this years ago; it would have saved much time and frustration.

It seemed implied that your grid was visible.

" CMD + ‘ " (CMD-apostrophe) is a quick way to turn the grid on and off.

Holding CTRL turns off the snapping until released.

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Robert Montgomery
Mar 2, 2010
Alan Browne wrote:
On 10-02-28 10:20 , Robert Montgomery wrote:
Alan Browne wrote:
On 10-02-24 18:54 , Robert Montgomery wrote:
In P. C.S.3 (Mac), how can I get selections to snap precisely to the guides?

I have View > Snap checked, and also View > Snap To > Guides checked, and yet the guides and selection rectangles aren’t precisely aligned to the edges of rectangular images and guides.

Let go of the CTRL-key?

Thanks, Alan.

I found the answer: View > Show > Grid!

I wish I had discovered this years ago; it would have saved much time and frustration.

It seemed implied that your grid was visible.

" CMD + ‘ " (CMD-apostrophe) is a quick way to turn the grid on and off.
Holding CTRL turns off the snapping until released.

Thanks, Tony and Alan.

Robert

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