split pixels nuisance – PS fails to snap shapes to pixel grid

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Joey33
Feb 5, 2007
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When you draw a shape in 100% zoom, only the curved and diagonal edges of shapes are antialiased – this is fine.
But if you try to draw a shape or resize the existing one in a view other than 1:1, even the horizontal and vertical edges are antialiased.
Icons and logos lose their clarity. To make them look crisp, you have to snap their borders to the pixel grid manually, which makes designing
small GUI elements a really cumbersome process. ‘Snap to’ option does not solve the issue.

And sometimes even this manual tuning is not possible, since whichever way you move the edge of the shape, a midtone arises on either side.
Photoshop places borders of shapes in split pixels and smoothens the edges, instead of snapping them automatically to the pixel grid so that they stay crisp.

I realize that an application dedicated for vector graphics is Illustrator, however Photoshop does contain vector shapes tool so it should work as expected.

I have prepared a screenshot for a more telling description: www.joey.win.pl/ps/edges.gif

One of semi-solutions I have come up with is that you can design shapes in pixel fill mode. However, once you draw them, they get rasterized and they lose their editability, which leaves the issue unanswered.

Hope Adobe will attend the issue in an update.

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Don_McCahill
Feb 5, 2007
< Photoshop does contain vector shapes tool so it should work as expected.

As "you" expected. What about people who don’t want their vectors snapping to pixel boundaries, for any reason.
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Joey33
Feb 5, 2007
As "you" expected. What about people who don’t want their vectors > snapping to pixel boundaries, for any reason.

Well, You’re right.

In this case, at least, there should be a choice. An option of turning on/off antialiasing when drawing shapes would make the app more versatile.

PS. I do not mean ‘pixel fill’ mode, where there is such an option. It renders the shape into bitmap once you draw it and vector editability is over.

Regards,
Joey33
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Don_McCahill
Feb 5, 2007
Ah, then you are looking for a new feature. I suggest posting it in the feature request section of the forum. The developers do look through that in evaluating what new features to add in future versions.
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Mathias_Vejerslev
Feb 5, 2007
I’ve been asking for anti-alias control รก la text options for vector shapes since their introduction. A good place for this post is in the Feature Request section of the forum.
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Joey33
Feb 5, 2007
Yeah, that’s a good idea. If there’re more voices, the chances are higher the app will be shaped to meet our needs.

However, I cannot find the section…. ๐Ÿ˜‰ Where is it?

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