P: Ability to snap to Pixel for shape/layer creation and transform

I second this.

If i may add one more suggestion to this.

"keyboard movements"

currently if you move a PATH using the keyboard increments are dependent on how zoomed you are, and if you hold shift its a big jump. we need on more modifier. call it command+L/R/U/D to move 1 pixel.

I'm adding this a request to a separate thread as i think its a little different.

Took me a while to find this thread. I was beginning to think I was the only person that wanted this (And have wanted it since I started Web Design 10 years ago)!

The "Snap to Pixels" option is NOT available for the vector line tool.
Seriously, this is FUNDAMENTAL for Web-Designers and if your using the marquee/fill method of creating shapes/masking, then ... well, this is just not best practices.

If Adobe doesn't incorporate this into CS6, then, simply put, there are not paying attention. Adobe, if your listening. DO IT!!!!!!! It will not cannibalize Illustrator!

Nearly every web designer I know (and I'm sure a huge number I don't know) uses Photoshop... that's a lot of users. For every single one of them sub pixel shapes like that become an issue. You're right it is not the right behaviour in a number of situations, but it certainly is necessary as an option. Having 'snap to pixels' in the view menu would be a really nice start

Think about how many people use Photoshop. Now what fraction of those are doing on-screen UI design? Only that limited set of users want snap to pixel behavior (and even some of them don't when they're designing for high res).
What you describe as "blur" is antialiasing (rendering fractions of pixels) - which is the right thing to do for the majority of work.

I think Chris was trying to say it's not something a 100% of our users would want. Photoshop's largest customer segment uses Photoshop for photography, so in that sense, it's not the majority of users. He acknowledged that it would be desirable for on-screen design for UI (i.e. web design). We get that web designers want this. 🙂

Limited case?? Almost every web designer I know uses Photoshop as their primary design tool. As there is a snap to pixel option when creating a new shape, so it doesn't seem like a stretch to keep that as the default for other vector adjustments too

Snap to pixel is usually only desirable in the limited case of doing design for on-screen UI. For print and most other workflows, snapping to whole pixels is an undesirable feature.

I wish the direct select tool had an option to "snap to pixels," even when I zoom in. I still haven't found a use case when I would ever want to move a vector point half a pixel.

Photoshop is a raster/pixel based software, so it would be great to make everything snap the pixel grid. No more blurry edges for me please!

@Chris Cox: Yep :)

Sure. Basically, almost all of the time, I want everything to snap to pixels; Vector, Type and Selection tools at least. Also when doing things like Transforming shapes, nudging points, etc.

Thanks for joining in on the discussions and caring about your product and your users 🙂