Objects in Photoshop "jump" pixels when moving

MR
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Matty_Ryan
Jul 14, 2008
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Hello

I was wondering if someone could help me with something that is really starting to annoy me.

When I’m moving objects in Photoshop, I find that they sometimes "jump" across pixels when I’m moving them.

For example, lets say I’ve got an image and I’ve zoomed in so that each pixel is shown as a large square. The rightmost edge of the image is on column 1 (bear with me).

Each column is 1 pixel wide. So it would look like 1 2 3 etc.

The rightmost pixel of my image is on column 1, and I want to move it to the right so that it is lined up on column 2.

I move my image to the right, but it doesn’t land on column 2 at all and skips it, to end up on column 3. So I move it left and it again jumps column 2 and ends up back on column 1.

I hope this makes sense.

I’ve experienced this on Photoshop 7 and CS2, on 3 different computers. I used to experience something like this in Microsoft WORD during IT classes at school years ago. We had to go into a menu and uncheck something to do with grids, but I can’t remember exactly what to do, and I can’t find anything that looks familiar in the Photoshop menus.

I really hope this makes sense to someone, because it gets incredibly annoying when I’m trying to be precise.

Sometimes zooming in to 400/500% stops it, and everything moves smoothly, but it doesn’t work all the time.

It doesn’t always "jump" one pixel either. Sometimes the "jump" can be 3 or 4 pixels wide.

I would very much appreciate any help with this. Its driving me mad.

Thanks.

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Don_McCahill
Jul 14, 2008
I think this is done because the object you are moving has antialiasing turned on. See if you can try with it turned off.
MR
Matty_Ryan
Jul 15, 2008
Thanks for the reply. 🙂

I’ve just looked through all the menus, trying to find something about anti-aliasing, and I found my problem.

It was View > Snap to.

I set it to None and I have no trouble now. I’m almost certain thats the name of the menu I went to in Microsoft WORD. Can’t believe I didn’t see that before.

So thanks for the advice. I wouldn’t have fixed this without you. 🙂

Matty

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