snapping shape layers in AE

Question

Hello, After Effects is a raster-based software, and so is Photoshop. The snapping works in photoshop like a magnet, very powerful, you can feel the snapping while dragging one shape on/beside another. But in AE, snapping is not even near photoshop. I learned I have to press shift and also ctrl to engage snapping in AE, but it's not as strong as photoshop. In Photoshop you will see guidelines while snapping. I want the same in AE. Is there any setting or anything I should know to initiate that? Maybe I don't know. I googled. Except for pressing shift and ctrl nothing is there. I want guideline and srong snapping like photoshop in AE, How can I get that?  and another thing, why do I see transparent pixel outside shape boundary in AE while dragging and after snapping? It should not be like that. It should merge with the layer below. A thin white line in between boundary of two shape layers I can see after snapping. Is it for my wrongful snapping Or I need to change something in settings? Thank you.

Mylenium · Accepted Answer

AE has no auto(-infered) guides nor does it detect intra-layer edges or any of that that PS. the transparent edges are just the normal antialiasing you would expect with sub-pixel positioning. You need to make sure your sizes and positions are whole pixels to avoid it.

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