: Combining angled shapes in Photoshop CS6 causes antialiasing on all When I combine two shapes where at least one has a non-right angle or curve, both shapes become anti-aliased. This appears

@Jennifer810

Photoshop will always anti-alias shapes, which in most situations is what you want. When designing icons and other small-scale items, quite often that's not what you want.

One way to avoid the problem is to change your workflow slightly. Create and combine paths, rather than shape layers, then stroke and fill the paths.


For strokes, use the Pencil tool and "Stroke Path" from the Paths flyout menu.
For fills, use "Fill Path" and turn off Anti-Alias.

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@Caterina889

Actually all those paths are anti-aliased, the top image and the bottom image. If you look closely you can see the subtle grey line for anti-aliasing.

The difference is an arc or angle will always require more anti-aliasing than a straight path.

To assist you can tick the "align edges" option which appears on the Control bar when a Shape Tool is active.

For more tips on adjusting anti-aliasing, please see the following similar threads:

How do I turn off anti-aliasing while drawing shapes in Photoshop?
superuser.com/questions/375493/can-i-disable-anti-aliasing-in-photoshop
How can I stop or disable anti-aliasing / feathering in Photoshop?

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