Snapping

Snapping helps keep your objects aligned when transforming them.

When you tap the Snapping button a Settings panel will appear. This controls the sensitivity and how your content responds when Snapping is on. Understanding how these controls affect Snapping can help with your workflow.

To activate Snapping, tap the Snapping button on the far left of your Transform toolbar, then tap the toggle next to Snapping. Tap the toggle again to turn it off.

When Snapping is turned on:

1. Blue guidelines will appear on-screen to help you align it with other images in your canvas.

2. Yellow guidelines will also appear to help you align your object to the canvas itself.

3. The bounding box around your content is what is used when calculating Snapping behaviour.

4. The below Distance and Velocity sliders are only used when Snapping itself is enabled, they have no bearing on Magnetics.

Distance controls the distance in pixels an object or guide needs to be before your content snaps to it.

For example, at 1 Distance you can scale or move your object around the canvas until it is within one pixel of another element. As soon as it hits that one pixel distance between, it can snap to an alignment point on that object, such as the center horizontal axis.

At 50 Distance your content will ‘jump’ and snap onto any guide or object within 50 pixels, so the object can be quite far away before it snaps to the edge or alignment of another object.

Velocity controls the speed your content moves before it activates the snapping guides.

With Velocity set at None your content will freely slide around the canvas without activating any guidelines.

At a low Velocity value, your content will only activate guides when you are moving it slowly.

At Max Velocity your content will activate all available guides unless you are moving it quickly.

Experiment with Distance and Velocity to find the Snapping sensitivity that works best for you.

When toggled on, Magnetics allows your content to easily slide or scale along a single axis.

Set the axis by dragging within or outside the bounding box in any direction. The axis will attempt to lock to a 15º increment.