How to turn Snap ON by default?

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November 21, 2019
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I went on holiday and the newest update to CC has turned snap off automatically. This slows my work dramatically. How do I turn snap on by default? Everytime I work on a new image (30-40 images a day), I have to manually turn snap back on and it's just not feasible with my work flow.

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Derek Cross

Community Expert

View > Grids and Guide > Snap to Guides.

Set this without any open documents to set it as the default.

scottmosher

Inspiring

In the newest version of Photoshop (2023) there is no option to do this. Without an open document almost everything is grayed out, including Snap, Snap To, Guides and Grid. So there's no way to set "Snap to" for default documents.

Ares Hovhannesyan

Community Expert

One could use Script Events Manager to link a Script to the open-event, I suppose.

Older Versions (Before 2023):
- Go to View > Grids and Guide > Snap to Guides.
- Set this without any open documents to make it the default behavior ¹.
Newer Versions (2023 and later):
- Unfortunately, in the latest version of Photoshop (2023), there isn’t a direct option to set Snap to Guides as the default behavior without an open document.
- However, here’s a workaround:
  - Turn Snap on or off as needed while working on a document. The settings are sticky, meaning they’ll stick for subsequent documents ² ³.
  - If you want to enable snapping for only one option (e.g., guides), make sure the Snap command is disabled, then choose View > Snap To and select the desired option ².

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