Cannot completely disable snapping. Free Transform always snaps to the pixel grid.

I want to bump this issue. It's still present in the latest versions of PS. Can we please have a way to completely disable snapping to the pixel grid when free transforming?

EDIT: I've created an issue / feature request here:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/please-implement-free-transformation-of-vector-shapes-without-snapping-when-snap-settings-are-off/idi-p/15138227

It is a bug that appeared long time ago. I remember the times when you could move shapes smoothly. But now no one pays attention to it. But you can use some trick to make it little bit smoother. You can use X: Y: W: H: names of fields in the top bar. These names work like sliders when you place cursor over them, and you can hold Ctrl while tweacking them.

Photoshop is a pixel editor so always works in units of single pixels when displaying an image. There are no half or quarter pixels when displaying an image.

Paths can cover partial pixels but the display of a shape created by a path is always displayed using whole pixels (although the value of those whole pixels can be changed to give the impression of partial pixels, for example when anti-aliasing is used).

For the same reason although the transform handles can move in smaller increments than a pixel, the transformed content will always fill whole pixel units.

Dave

Hi, I tested it here for you on Mac with PS 2022 and 2023. What I notice is that the bounding box does not snap to the pixels(although it is not smooth as you would expect. Even though it does not snap it is jumpy) . It doesn't either in your video. What does snap is the actual image, so the pixels keep jumping to the next pixel. If I think about it that would make sense since it is rasterised so a pixel will always be snapping to another pixel even though the bounding box of your transform would not. Maybe someone else could confirm or explain this better?