Stupid Photoshop tricks

I've been using Photoshop for over 10 years now. During my earlier years some of the built in features we take for granted today (like layers) were not available yet, and as a result I developed some really strange and convoluted ways of doing some very basic things. Like making shapes. Even though there has been a rounded corner rectangle tool for like forever, I still whipped out the marquee and paint bucket every time. Why not use the PS shape tool? Because I didn't like how hard it was to get nice clean non-anti-aliased edges. I always thought to myself, "Why doesn't Adobe make an option to snap the edges of my shapes to whole pixels?" As I discovered today, they do. And probably have for a long time.

If you have somehow missed this like I did, here is a very detailed guide on how to get nice crisp corners edges on your Photoshop shapes.

Step 1: With the shape tool selected, click on the little triangle in the tool options palette.

Step 2: Select the checkbox that says "Snap to Pixels."

Step 3: Punch yourself for not discovering this years ago.

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Posted by Mark Allen on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 Comments (2)