How to work in WHOLE pixels only.

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
March 5, 2022
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I am blown away that photoshop continues to innovate in ways that leave many people scratching their heads.
From reset of personal preferences (shortcuts) after every months bill, to partial pixel return values when resizing an object like a rectangle... I am just unsure if you are trying to push customers away or is that an unintentional consequence?

So to see what I am talking about.
1. Create a new image.
2. Choose a size of 256px x 256px.
3. Add a rectangle.
4. Set its size to 70px x 15px(for example)

5. Grab the handles, and resize it.

As you resize, you will notice the width changes... as it should... But the lovely floating poing values following the whole number, is NOT acceptable. NOT desirable.
It causes antialiasing on perfect shapes, and requires manual intervention to rectify it.

While I am at it:
Every month, After my bill, I set the quick export to png button to Ctrl + alt + shift + s.
This is a necessity for anyone working with graphics. A shortcut to make things happen fast.
Every month, for the past 2 years without fail, after my bill updates, this shortcut and all other custom shortcuts get erased.

Maybe its an update thing. Maybe not.
But photoshop has been around since I was 10 years old. 26 years later and you still cannot manage to preserve user preferences?

What am I paying for? Why am I paying the cost of food for 10 children in Kenya, when you can't even get the most BASIC graphics processing functions down.

I am going to say this one last time.
Please.
Fix.
This.

Or I will suffer the learning curve to switch to the free and all powerful GIMP. I don't want to.
I just will not tolerate junior level developer mistakes from a world class software company any longer.

Please fix these two issues.

Photoshop 23.1.1 (Release)
Windows 10 Pro(Latest) - all updates
Ryzen 9 32 Core
128GB DDR5

2TB M.2

Windows

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Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

@Dwerb Corporation

Re: Keyboard Shortcuts – you can save the preset file, back it up, restore it if required. Same with many other presets.

The following script will open up the various folders where such files are stored, facilitating copy or zipping the various files or folders for a manual backup.

https://github.com/MarshySwamp/Backup-Photoshop-Settings-Universal/blob/main/Open%20Photoshop%20Presets%20%26%20Settings%20Folders

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/11/downloading-and-installing-adobe-scripts.html

D Fosse

Community Expert

I think I figured this out.

As long as you view at 100%, everything scales in whole pixels.

If you zoom in beyond 100%, you get the fractional numbers.

It actually makes perfect sense, because there are cases where you want sub-pixel resampling. Think of anti-aliased text just as one example. So here you have a very simple and logical way to control that.

The thing is, Triangle4, we all tend to judge things based on our own needs, and assume those needs are universal and apply to everyone. But the next person may be doing something completely different from you. It's not easy for an application with such a diverse user base as Photoshop to make everyone happy.

Derek Cross

Community Expert

This is a User-to-user forum (you are not addressing Adobe on here).

Most people seem happy with the application. Has Bojan's suggestion sorted the issue?

Bojan Živković11378569

Community Expert

Go to Preferences > Tools and turn on Snap Vector Tools and Transforms to Pixel Grid. I am not sure why they allow floating point but that is how it is, with option in preferences.

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