Photoshop 21.1 Keyboard increments Missing

[Karen Campos]

My preferences no longer has the option to adjust my Keyboard Increments number. I'm working on clipping paths and I need to get up close and personal with some very small detail, I need to be able to make tiny nudges. This is where it used to live...

Why has this been removed from the preferences?

[c.pfaffenbichler · Accepted solution]

Seems to me those look like the Illustrator Prefernces, not like the Photoshop Preferemces, so what might you be mixing up here? 

[Karen Campos]

I grabbed that from Google, I may have grabbed one from Illustrator by mistake. Photoshop did have the Keyboard Increment option in the preference panel before. I've used it several times over the past 5+ years.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Feel free to install one of the obsolete CC versions and let me know where that setting was and in which version. 

Could you mean the Grid (Photoshop > Preferences > Guides, Grid & Slices)?  

[Karen Campos]

I must be confused or going crazy then. Thanks for your time, much appreciated.

[erainirene]

I also have this problem. I used to be able to move a path in very small steps with the keyboard, but that setting is gone. Now my shapes are all blurry and I don't know how to make them sharp. Hoe can I move it less than a pixel?

[c.pfaffenbichler]

What are you talking about? 

Could you please post a screenshot taken at View > 100% with the pertinent Panels (Toolbar, Layers, Channels, Options Bar, …) visible? 

[erainirene]

In my screenshot you see I selected the handles on the left. I used to be able to move those in very small steps until I got a sharp line. Now I can only move it 1 full pixel, which keeps it as blurry as it is now.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

I asked for a screenshot taken at View > 100%. 

What are the Photoshop > Preferences > Tools settings? 

[erainirene]

The screenshot is > 100%, it is 1600% Or do I misunderstand? The settings are as follows:

[jane-e]

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@erainirene wrote:

The screenshot is > 100%, it is 1600% Or do I misunderstand? The settings are as follows:

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Your image is zoomed to 1600%.

~ Jane

[erainirene]

Oh I see, I thought the > sign meant "bigger than". But you mean it must be exactly 100%. Here it is:

[jane-e]

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@erainirene wrote:

Oh I see, I thought the > sign meant "bigger than".

It absolutely does! Except in software documentation, it's used as a separator. 😊

~ Jane

[c.pfaffenbichler]

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Oh I see, I thought the > sign meant "bigger than". But you mean it must be exactly 100%. 

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That is indeed the valid interpretation in general, but as @jane-e  already explained on these Fora the sign is used to indicate menu structures. 

[c.pfaffenbichler]

And have you ever wondered what »Snap Vector Tools and Transforms to Pixel Grid« indicates? 

[erainirene]

Yes! That did the trick. Thanks so much! 

[Bojan Živković]

Absolutelly agree with c_pfaffenbichler, Photoshop never had that option in preferences.

[krne]

Yes they DID, in fact, have that preference. It's gone now.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

In which version of Photoshop do you think this setting was available? 

[jane-e]

Hi

This would be a great feature request for the engineers.

• In Illustrator the nudge can be set to a minimum of .0001 pt and a maximum of 1296 pt.
• In InDesign, the value is between .001 pt and 100 pt.

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family

Post your link back here so others will see it and vote.

~ Jane