Is there a reason why moving/resizing a rectangle drawn by the Rectangle Tool (no outline, fill with background color) on a vector layer, adds a brush outline to the rectangle when it is moved or resized by the Select Shapes Tool? To illustrate:
I noticed another entry that sounded like a similar issue with the Freehand Selection Tool. So I guess this is a known “feature” or perhaps intended functionality? But for me personally, I’d prefer to retain the rectangle in its original form (just resized or moved).
And that was my thought as well. But I am unsure exactly what brush to select that will retain the crisp edges without the anti-aliased/drop shadow/outline effect.
On a vector layer (I’m assuming it’s a vector object), I’d have thought this could be scalable/moveable without this sort of effect. Instead I would normally expect it to retain its original properties, regardless of scaling or moving actions.
I think there are 2 different issues at play here:
If you draw a shape, it will be restricted to pixel grid at first. However, edges are not centered at the pixels but placed on the grid lines instead.
Second, if you then move the object, either with the shape selection tool or transform, you can move to sub-pixel positions - which will lead to those blurred edges in most cases.
You can set snap to pixel grid by pressing shift+S and check ‘Pixel’ in that list. Note however, that it’s always the center (or pivot point in case of transform tool) of the shape, that will snap to the grid. So, if your shape dimension is an uneven number of pixels, you’ll end up with blurry edges everytime after moving - while it’ll be OK with even pixel dimensions.
As a workaround, you can drag the corners onto the grid again after moving (tedious, I know…).
I thought as much. I really do try to search for answers before posting, but as a beginner I didn’t even know what to look for in this case and so felt contemned to opening yet another repeat post, for which I apologize. Going into it, this just had that feeling of a topic which has come up before and been addressed ad-nauseum.
Tedious, yes. As a novice, this is unexpected actions required to perform to get the desired results. But, it’s a workaround that seems to work, so hurray.
BTW, what you outlined seems to be exactly what is going on. With snap to pixel off, moving/resizing (zoomed in to small rectangles to where it shows the pixel grid), it shows this happening in real time.
