: Can't figure out how to snap object to grid I am learning Illustrator right now, and I follow this Adobe guide to learn how to create pixel-aligned objects. The problem is that I seem to

@Cofer715

If you make your keyboard increment and your grid line values the same this will solve your snapping issue.

So here are the directions: (These are the setting I use for our ui projects. Your grid and increments will be whatever grid you want to use)

1) prefs/ gridline every:16px & subdivisions:1

2) view / snap to pixel

3) prefs/ "keyboard increment" 16px

With these setting what you will see when you have the grid turned on or off is that my text or object will snap every 16px. I usually start by putting the object on a grid line and it should snap to the next.

I should also mention Illustrator CC has snap to grid and Illustrator CS6 has snpa to pixel/point so needless to say the experience is better in CC.

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@Margaret771

If you are creating Rectangles, Ellipses etc they are "Live Shapes" that do not, for reasons unknown, heed the setting "Align new objects to pixel grid".

I've become irritated with the same problem as you today and asked about it here:
Illustrator CC: Align to pixel grid is on but to no effect

I'm currently using the solution with creating a 1 px grid and it works OK, but not in conjuction with "Smart guides" feature. I think Illustrator is lacking severely in the grids/snapping department and greatly prefer Sketch from Bohemian Coding for the design I'm doing these days. But that is Mac only, and I'm tied to a Windows computer at work.

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@Gloria351

In illustrator (and photoshop) you can change default settings very easily.

Just open illustrator but don't open any document.
In this stage, any settings you change will remain saved for future documents

So for example if you press the "align to pixel grid" checkbox in this stage and afterwards open a new or saved document, it will stay checked.

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