P: Move tool targeting imprecise

Yeah, but when you sit with a +100 layers document, working all day long with this technique just isn't doable... I would rather work in Paint 😉

When this autoselect problem is afflicting your Move Tool, a better-than-nothing solution is to right-click on the problem area, which provides a context menu of the layers. At least it does on a Mac. Hopefully, it can be done in Windows, too.

I've found exactly the same problem in my work. It's baffling to me that this is the only thread I've found about it.

To be more clear:

It seems to be a software 'assistance' feature to aid the user in selecting a layer. Each layer seems to have a clickable "halo" of 9px surrounding it (I measured!). Clicking within this area will select the foremost layer, rather than the layer behind it - even if the pointer is visually pointing to the layer in back.

The 9px remains constant regardless of the zoom level – so, I can work around the problem by zooming in and then clicking... but that's annoying.



This might be useful for folks doing less-detailed, pixel-perfect work, but for UI design it's super-frustrating. It's strange, because so many *other* features in PS6 have made UI work better. (vector shapes snapping to the pixel grid, etc.)

I agree that this should be turn-off-able with a checkbox - if not removed outright. 🙂

This is real folks please fix it...

its pretty much a mess when you deal with a lot of small layers.. icons, etc.

I also suffer from this problem. I need pixel perfect accuracy for my design work and this is EXTREMELY frustrating.

Is there no way to turn this off?

I agree with Kaupo if that's the case. An ability to turn this off would be perfect. I like the rest of the new photoshop, but this bug/featuer is causing me not to upgrade in the company.

Drivers are up to date now, same issue...

It only occurs with the move tool, other tools work fine.

I have the same issue. And I'm pretty sure that Photoshop tries to "assist" the user with the selection but fails to do so.

It's recommended to have an option to turn off any assisting features (in software).