Soft / blurred edges to rectangles when drawn with grid / guidelines showing

[DavidC]

Hi,

I've got a very annoying problem. When drawing rectangles with grid / guidelines showing using 960 Grid System (although it happens with other documents as well), the edges of the rectangle are not sharp, e.g. http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/6232/blurred.png - note top and right side is blurred. There are no styles applied.

When I switch off grids / guidelines, the rectangles are always sharp.

Also, resizing rectangles causes loss of sharpness to edges.

Using CS4.

Any suggestions, please?

 

[Nomission]

Before drawing, go to options bar, click Geometry Options dropdown button (next to the custom shape tool) and make shure that snap to pixels is checked.

The loss of sharpness when resizing shows up because the math algorithms decide that, based on your level of resizing, the vector will fall "between" pixels, and because screens only know pixels, it has to average the position and anti-alias comes in play.
Try this, draw a rectangle exactly 500px wide, duplicate it, put them side by side. Resize one by 80% the other by 50%, reposition both and zoom at maximum to see both corners. See what I mean? the 50% is perfect the other one shows the anti-aliased pixels. If you click the vector shape, you'll see the vector in is position and the anti-aliased pixels.
Hope it helped.

 

[DavidC]

The 'snap to pixels' option fixed it. Thank you very much - I'd spent hours looking for an answer before posting here.

Yeah, I see what you mean about the resizing. That's easy to work around.

Thanks once again for your help - much appreciated.

 

[Sascha Frangilli]

Cough cough.... Rectangular marquee tool

Does this apply as well to when I use the Rect. marquee tool to copy something from a picture, and when I open a new file to do the paste, the pictures is transparant on ALL sides. Soooo totally annoying, I have no idea how to solve this.

Help! ;-)

I am fairly new with CS4 extended..... (meaning, don't get too technical in explaining, hahaha).

 

[Sascha Frangilli]

oops

Need to click the notification thingymedingy... And s**t, now I can't even click outside the box to get the outline of the marquee tool away.

Perhaps resetting Photoshop to the original settings might help? But how do I do that?

 

[66stang66]

Need to click the notification thingymedingy... And s**t, now I can't even click outside the box to get the outline of the marquee tool away.

Perhaps resetting Photoshop to the original settings might help? But how do I do that?

Hold Shift+Ctrl+Alt while the program loads.

 

[Sascha Frangilli]

Delete Photoshop settings

That is the message I get when I press Shift Control Alt. I am not sure that if that is what I want.... Lol, I just want to reset Photoshop so hopefully all my old settings will return.