Photoshop CS2 - Avoiding Shape Tool Anti-Aliasing

Today I struggled with Adobe Photoshop CS2's Shape Tool. When I first mocked up a website layout for later slicing, I had nice, crisp, rounded rectangle background shapes as expected. However, after receiving some super tips from a talented graphic designer, I decided to revisit my original site layout and remove the rounded corners. I was disappointed to discover that my shape tool (rectangle in this case, but lines, circles, etc), when in the fill layer setting, was automatically anti-aliasing all my edges (not just the rounded corners as expected). I called a fellow web developer, and he saw the same results. Crisp in Fill Pixels (with option to antialias), but fill layers refused to draw crisply. Another bright designer we consulted suggested importing Illustrator ai's as smart objects...

But I wanted Fill Layers! They're there for a purpose afterall..

My Solution: It appears that CS2 has the unexpected behavior that drawing with shape tools on fill layers when zoomed in greater than 100% (or less than, too-- verified), causes the fill layer mask to automatically anti-alias! Zoom back out to 100%, and the shape draws "crisp" as expected!

See figure:

This has been verified (as of 2/5/2007) to be a problem with Adobe CS3 - beta as well. Please, please take the time to hit Adobe with a little bug report using Adobe's issue report form on-line.

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Another solution

Whatever the shape – when you use
guides to which the edges of the desired shape snap, the borders of the shape are still and don't run away causing smudged borders. You have to remember to insert an <strong>integer</strong> value in the 'New Guide...' dialog box - this ensures borders to stay in between adjacent pixels. This equally concerns predefined shapes, paths and custom shapes.

great tip to overcome the photoshop anti-alias bug

Thanks for sharing the great tip! There are others out there that don't think this is a bug, so I'm happy to at least learn of a good work-around.

Workaround

There is a workaround that I found for this: set up a grid (in Edit->Preferences->Grids, Guides & Slices) with something like "Gridline every 10 pixels" and "10 subdivisions". Then turn on the grid (View->Show->Grid) and turn on snapping (View->Snap). As you drag the shape boundaries, they should snap to the 1 pixel increments in the grid. Hope this helps!

clever work-around!

Ah, very good idea.. makes sense! Thanks for sharing a great solution-- since I rarely use snap-to-grids in photoshop, it will be an unincumbering extra step for me to add that to my work flow. Thanks!

thanks for the workarounds

good to know there's a workaround for this bug. what on earth were adobe thinking?

i've recently come back to using photoshop after 5 years of fireworks and vectors in photoshop take a lot of getting used to. at least in fireworks they got the anti-aliasing right.

thanks for the tip mate

thanks for the tip mate

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Thanks, I love you

This has been bugging me for so long now (I just didn't take the time to check it out properly for some reason) and this solution works perfectly. It's actually a really bizaar solution but I really appreciate it.

Adobe really need to correct this.

- Daniel Carvalho

Photoshop still rocks

Let's be clear here.. Photoshop still rocks-- I'm not dogging the workhorse that it is.

I'd like to invite you to post an issue to Adobe's issue queue (url has updated)

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

cheers
-bronius

Thank you!

This has been driving me crazy all day! Before I read this article I had been putting layer masks on all of my shapes and had to remove the anti-aliasing manually with the pencil tool. That was such a pain in the ass.

I googled "photoshop + shape anti aliasing?" and this was one of the first articles I saw. It was EXACTLY what I needed!

 Many thanks! You've saved me hours of torment. 

great!

Hey thanks for sharing :) I think it's funny that we're on CS4 (well, I'm on CS3 at any rate) and still seeing it. I wonder if CS4 is still affected?

btw, if you read the sitepoint forums thread on this, some of folks there might rock your boat.  Personally, it's been so long I don't know who to believe anymore. :O

Just found this same issue

Just found this same issue on the latest trial download of Photoshop CS4. I thought I was going crazy.... glad its not just me!

that's pretty funny..

Maybe I should monetize here and throw up a form to Adobe's bug report and some Google AdWords...

Thanks all for your participation. I am not really confident that anything will get Adobe's attention without a bunch of bug reports to them.  So funny that CS4 has the same anti-alias zoom bug. 

oh for @#$^ sake

Thank you.

With a deadline due in a few hours, and spending the last 15 minutes trying to turn off a non-existant antialiasing setting, I was almost on the verge of smashing something. Grrrrrraaaghh!!   

Anyway, thanks again. 

HOW is this the most popular content on my site??

Thanks everyone who has commented here.. I just wanted to write that this page is the most popular content on my site.  How is that possible?  I hope that CS6 will cure the behavior-- I have CS5 but have not yet installed and therefore not confirmed this behavior/bug's persistence.  Anyone else?

Found a solution...

For me an option in CS3 that was a little bit hidden has fixed this issue with shape layers. It seemed that whenever I created a solid square for instance there would be a pixel border around it that was transparent, wasn't pixel perfect as I need for solid shapes and made things fuzzy at 100%. I've posted a pic of how to enable the fix option for this in CS3 at http://wgboyd.com/snap-to-pixels.jpg Basically after selecting the shape tool, you can use the drop down chevron next to the custom shape icon on the tool bar. That option dialog has an unchecked option for "Snap to Pixels." After checking that my issues have gone away. =)

Anti-alias annoyance/but in CS3/CS4 shape tool SOLUTION

Wow, thanks!  I'll check it out next time I have my painterly hat on.

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