Have Objects Snap to the Rulers or a Grid?

When you’re lining things up using a guide, you can have Photoshop take anything you’re dragging (like an image, or type, or a shape, etc.), and have it automatically snap to that guide when you get near it. It helps to make things perfectly line up without you having to “eye it”—moving it back and forth a pixel or two at a time to get it to line up. To turn this feature on, go under the View menu, and choose Snap. Then, go under the View menu, again, under Snap To, and you’ll see a list of things you can snap to. Choose Guides to turn on guide snapping. Now, when you drag something near a guide (like the text above), it will snap right to it (you’ll feel it “tug” the text or image kind of like a magnet). You can also snap to other things. For example, if you turn on the grid (under the View menu, under Show), then turn on Snap To Grid, as you drag, your object will snap to the grid of squares to help you line things up. If you want to have things snap to the edges of your image window, choose Document Bounds. Also, you can toggle this Snap feature on/off using the keyboard shortcut Command-Shift-; (PC: Ctrl-Shift-;).