Moving and resizing by whole pixels

[velarde]

Hello

Hope somebody can help with something that is driving me crazy in Photo.... 

Probably just a setting I need to check but not sure of the right combination

 

I want to work in my images by whole pixels, NEVER decimals.

I copy and past an image and it shows (for example) in the Transform panel X position 104.5. and Y position 123.3 !!!

Ok.. so I check the "Force pixel alignment" and it looks like I fix the issue

but as soon as I resize the image and reposition it a  little bit using the handles I get decimals again!!! what gives?

 

I want to move and resize my images by whole pixels .. always, to avoid blurry images

 

Any idea of the settings I need to check so I can always work this way...?

 

[Alfred]

This is something that has always annoyed me! Counterintuitively, ‘Move By Whole Pixels’ takes precedence over ‘Force Pixel Alignment’, so the solution is to enable ‘Force Pixel Alignment’ but disable ‘Move By Whole Pixels’.

[velarde]

Hello Alfred 

I do have Force pixel alignment on and move my whole pixels off

It looks like it is working but as soon as I resize an image using the handles and adjust the image position slightly I still get decimals , 

Maybe a bug? 

I'm attaching an image of my settings. 

 

[Alfred]

19 minutes ago, velarde said:

I'm attaching an image of my settings. 

Thank you. I can’t see anything obvious that would account for objects failing to remain aligned to pixel boundaries.

[NotMyFault]

When you resize a layer or document with locked aspect ratio, getting fractional values is unavoidable unless you are using size / positions compatible with given aspect ratio.

A screen recording of you workflow would help to nail down the issue. What exactly are you resizing?

• layers by move tool
• canvas by crop tool
• document by resize?

 

[Old Bruce]

Turn off anything that has midpoints in its name/description.

Actually just have the force pixels alignment on with snap to bounding boxes. That should do for a start.

[velarde]

thanks for the suggestions all ...

I'm investigating but What I'm doing is very simple. 

I'm making some images/banners for web that have a fixed size. (pixels)

 

1) I copy and paste different pictures into my file ( which has the final size I want)

2) I move and scale the images as needed... using the image's bounding box controls. very quick workflow

 

But at the end when I finish positioning my images I have to double check there are no decimals in the final images positions.

It's hit or miss. Some images end with decimals, others don't . (Most do)

If I jiggle the images around quickly and I can remove the decimal point in the position. But If I resize the images and position them again I have to double check that decimals don't get reintroduced in the new position.   Not sure if the problem is that the width and height values have also decimals... That's why I was wondering if I can resize them by full pixels.

I want to use the handles that are there for the resizing and not need to type numbers to move and resize objects... 

Strange I don't remember having to worry about this before with this workflow... 

but since its web work (not print)  the little decimals  can make the images slightly blurry since they are not pixel aligned...

 

Note: The snap to spread midpoint setting is pretty useful.. not sure if I want to turn this off... 

[Old Bruce]

7 minutes ago, velarde said:

Note: The snap to spread midpoint setting is pretty useful.. not sure if I want to turn this off... 

Choose to not turn it off even if it is the source of the problem?

[velarde]

11 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Choose to not turn it off even if it is the source of the problem?

 

Ja.. VERY GOOD point.

I turned it off and it looks like this fixes my particular problem...  

 

P.D. Thanks for the quick reply by the way 😃