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Use snapping

Snapping helps with precise placement of selection edges, cropping marquees, slices, shapes, and paths. However, sometimes snapping prevents you from correctly placing elements. You can enable or disable snapping using the Snap command. You can also specify different elements to which you want to snap when snapping is enabled.

Enable snapping

 Choose View > Snap. A check mark indicates that snapping is enabled.

Specify what to snap to

 Choose View > Snap To, and choose one or more options from the submenu:

Guides

Snaps to guides.

Grid

Snaps to the grid. You cannot select this option when the grid is hidden.

Layer

Snaps to the content in the layer.

Slices

Snaps to slice boundaries. You cannot select this option when slices are hidden.

Document Bounds

Snaps to the edges of the document.

All

Selects all Snap To options.

None

Deselects all Snap To options.

A check mark indicates that the option is selected and snapping is enabled.

If you want to enable snapping for only one option, make sure the Snap command is disabled, and then choose View > Snap To and choose an option. This automatically enables snapping for the selected option, and deselects all other Snap To options.

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Comments

Snaps do no work when placing guides at all. Snaps also do not work when shift constraining. not sure what happened in CS3.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 doesn't seem to allow snapping of guides to the horizontal and vertical mid points of a document's background layer.

Snap to Guides, Layers and Document Bounds are selected under the View menu.

Please explain how I set this up, as per previous versions of PS.

Many thanks.

I'd also like to know what happened to being able to snap to the mid points of a layer's contents -- the help says that's what snap to layer is supposed to do, but it doesn't. Argh.