Computer Graphics with Photoshop - Snap to guides only works on second corner ???

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Snap to guides only works on second corner ???

john@world.com

2006-03-27, 6:18 pm

I often use guides to position a boarder round a picture. This is
spaced away from the actual picture on a usually white background

Once the guides are set I draw a rectangular marquee from opposite
corners and then stroke that.

I have to very carefully position the marquee over the first corner,
the snap to function does not work on this first corner. However the
marquee will snap to the second corner when the cursor gets near to
that one..

Is this normal behavior or am I missing something..

John

Bill Hilton

2006-03-27, 6:18 pm

> j...@world.com writes ...
>
>Once the guides are set I draw a rectangular marquee from opposite
>corners and then stroke that
>.
>I have to very carefully position the marquee over the first corner,
>the snap to function does not work on this first corner. However the
>marquee will snap to the second corner when the cursor gets near to
>that one..
>Is this normal behavior or am I missing something..

I just tried it with guides at 40 and 60% and it snaps equally well to
either corner, fwiw ...

edjh

2006-03-28, 6:16 am

john@world.com wrote:
> I often use guides to position a boarder round a picture. This is
> spaced away from the actual picture on a usually white background
>
> Once the guides are set I draw a rectangular marquee from opposite
> corners and then stroke that.
>
> I have to very carefully position the marquee over the first corner,
> the snap to function does not work on this first corner. However the
> marquee will snap to the second corner when the cursor gets near to
> that one..
>
> Is this normal behavior or am I missing something..
>
> John

You should be aware that while Guides can be anywhere, Marquee
selections are constrained to pixel increments. Perhaps that's the problem.

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john@world.com

2006-03-29, 3:16 am

On 27 Mar 2006 13:59:26 -0800, "Bill Hilton" <bhilton665@aol.com>
wrote:

>
>I just tried it with guides at 40 and 60% and it snaps equally well to
>either corner, fwiw ...

I still cannot get it to do that. I guess it is back to the manual.

Thanks