: How to stop Photoshop CC from snapping to other elements? I'm trying to move elements around on the grid, but Photoshop CC keeps trying to snap to other elements in the image. I've tried turning

@Murray976

Background

Found out what I needed to do! The culprit is Adobe's so-called "Smart Guides"; they do not have an option in the View > Snap menu, which is why I went around and around for hours without figuring out a way to disable them.

I hit up Google again today, and eventually discovered that the offending feature was called "Smart Guides", so I turned around and plugged that into my query and after trawling through a bunch of posts that ended up being complaints about Frame Edge highlighting in InDesign and other Adobe apps, I finally came across this SU answer.

The Solution

Navigated through the menu to View > Show > Smart Guides ... uncheck that, and PRESTO, no "smart" guides, no more elements trying to snap to other elements I don't want them snapping to!

Misc. Gripe

I can see the usefulness of Smart Guides, but really, Adobe should separate Smart Guides from regular Guides in the Snap To menu; I may be using manually-set guides and still want to snap to those but not snap to the "smart" guides. Turning off Snap To Guides does stop snapping to Smart Guides, but then I also lose snapping to manual guides.

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