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dodgyb2001
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June 29, 2018
Question

Snapping with the transform tool when snap off

  • June 29, 2018
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For the love of something, can you make the Free Transform tool's handles NOT snap to the document edges when Snapping is off? It's only been broken for 10 years. It's so annoying. If I wanted to snap to the edges, I'd turn snap on.

Thank you.

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    keenbeans
    Participant
    September 29, 2025

    It's 2025 and this is still broken. None of the proposed solutions work. Shift and Ctrl do nothing. Why is this still a thing?

    Using latest version of photoshop CC 2025

    Jonas DK
    Jonas DK
    Known Participant
    May 19, 2022

    So crazy that YOU HAVE ENABLE SNAP to NOT USE snap when using free transform. Come on Adobe Photoshop devs!!!! 😞 It solved the problem - but fix this issues once and for all - in a logical way. Please!

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      Vadym317963798f5m
      Participant
      September 11, 2023

      Same to me. Came here because in Free trasform no snaping when I do it with Diagonal scaling (not legacy)
      BUT if you do vertical scaling with verical arrow (that how it works now) not comfortable at all even with guides. SO anoying. Thinking of buying another software, simply strange.
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      vincentv94512203
      Participant
      December 16, 2018

      For me neither the Shift key, nor anything else helped until I unchecked "snap vector tools and transforms to pixel grid", under Preferences; Tools.

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        kewo1793975
        Participant
        October 19, 2018

        I just upgraded to Photoshop CC 2019 and started having the same problem. I discovered that holding the shift command combination removed the snapping.

        Jeff Arola
        Community Expert
        Jeff ArolaCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        June 29, 2018

        What version of photoshop and operating system are you using?

        Seems to have been working for me, but it could depend on the kind of layer your transforming.

        When you have transform invoked, if you press the Ctrl key (mac and windows) while going the transform, does that keep the snapping off?

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        dodgyb2001Author
        Participant
        June 29, 2018

        It's when I have Snapping off, but use Ctrl and drag the corner to get a freeform transform, it snaps to the edge. However, if I have Snapping ON, and use ctrl to freeform transform it, the snapping doesn't happen. Mental... This has happened for as long as I can remember using PS, which is years.

        Jeff Arola
        Community Expert
        Jeff ArolaCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        June 29, 2018

        Your using Windows or Mac?

        I believe that is the intended behavior in photoshop.

        The Ctrl Key disables Snap when Snap is checked in the View menu and the Ctrl key enables Snap when

        Snap is unchecked in the View menu.

        You can ask over here at Photoshop.com and see what adobe says about it.

        https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family

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