Are Smart Guides no longer reliable? Free transform is finnickey as well....

I've noticed that, since downloading CC on its release last year (and keeping consistent with updates), there has been a noticeable unreliability with Smart Guides. I will have a rectangle, for example, that I want to snap to a guide or another shape. The green text will pop up, saying "Guide," so as to let me know it is going to snap to the guide, but it doesn't. I set it down, and it's a nudge or two or three off. Has anyone else encountered this?
I've also noticed a difference in free transforming. It doesn't always happen, but take, for instance, the rectangle in the following series of images. I click it with the Selection Tool once, then attempt to stretch it upward. The bounding box containing the shape is suddenly not form-fitting around the rectangle, and when I stretch, it doesn't stay put the way it should. The bottom edge of the rectangle is moved up, as if the shape is centered within the wrongly-sized bounding box. Is this part of a new feature that I'm not aware of? Would love to get to the bottom of this. It's a hassle having to direct-select the edge I want to pull up.

This is what I'm referring to:
As to your second question: don't ask me ... :-)

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Hi,
I'm really frustrated with this, since in all the previous versions this problem was not present.
When I try to scale down a Smart Object, by using the Free Transform tool, I get over-sharped edges. I suspect this is an interpolation issue. Mind you when I do the same on a raster layer I can overcome it since there is an option box where I can choose interpolation method.

flamestudios wrote:
That worked for me, even if I would prefer to be able to choose interpolation method when I transform Smart Object layers, just like you can on raster ones.
That not an option and its never an option using DOM scripting code you need to retrieve the users interpolation method set the one you want to use and then restore the users preference. Adobe even broke that in CS6. If you try the retrieve the user preference and it set to "Bicubic Automatic" which happens to be Adobe's default setting CS6 script encounters an internal error. If you catch the error and you can know the user setting is "Bicubic Automatic" If you change the setting your unable to restore the users setting for like you can not retrieve "Bicubic Automatic" using DOM code you can not set it with DOM code. Perhaps you can with Action Manager scriptlistener code. I'll give Adobe some more time to fix this before adding special code into my scripts to get around the CS6 problem.

Is Illustrator CC's Smart Guides Intersect label MIA?

I recently upgraded from Illustrator CS5 to the latest Illustrator CC version and I noticed that Smart Guides no longer label intersecting lines... Is there a preference I need to enable for that label to appear as it did on CS5?

It's a tweak to put the ruler origin in Illustrator back the way it was before Adobe changed in CS4.
Example:
In pre-CS5 if you wanted to move an object dimensionally up and the right 1 inch you would select the item, double click on the black arrow tool and and in the Move window you would type "Horizontal 1, Vertical 1" and it would move up and to the right 1 inch. But, in CS5 Illustrator was change from using quadrant 1 to quadrant 4 (similar to how Indesign is) so if you wanted to move the same object up and to the right 1 you would need to enter "Horizontal 1, Vertical -1".
Which means you would always be working in negative space. If you're new to Illustrator you wouldn't even notice this but for "Veterans" this was a bit of pain... so someone out there was cleaver enough to figure out to "tweak" how the ruler interprets the origin and restore Illustrator to use quadrant 1.
The tweak isn't very difficult, but I would not recommend this to novice users:
How to change the ruler origin in Illustrator.
To change the ruler origin (and direction of the Y axis) in CC to be the same as in CS4 and earlier:
Close down Illustrator (you can only change the preference file with Illustrator closed);
This is a global change so you only have to do it once (just as you can undo it once).
Pref file directory is as follows (please note the Library may be hidden):
/Users/<username>/Library/Preferences/Adobe Illustrator Settings/en_US/1
Find and open the Adobe Illustrator Prefs file with Textedit
Find and change the following two bits of code:
/isRulerOriginTopLeft 1 change it to /isRulerOriginTopLeft 0
/isRulerIn4thQuad 1 change it to /isRulerIn4thQuad 0
Close and save the Pref file.
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Illustrator CC Free Transform not Snapping to Guides, No Smart Guides

The Free Transform tool in Illustrator CC won't snap to Guides, and Smart Guides don't seem to work either.
I have all the options checked in Preferences > Smart Guides > Display Options and the Snapping Tolerance turned way up.
In CS6, Free Transform with Smart Guides allowed you to snap to paths, points, alignments and guides.
Also: Any way to hide/minimize the Free Transform popup?

James,
Depending on the urgency of your plight, you may await some cleverer suggestions, or read on.
When seems to be wrong for no apparent reason, and it is not limited to certain (existing) documents, you may consider the following (you may have tried/done some of them already) and see whether it helps, unless someone comes up with a cleverer suggestion.
The following is a general list of things you may try when the issue is not in a specific file; 3) and 4) are specifically aimed at possibly corrupt preferences:
1) Close down Illy and open again;
2) Restart the computer (you may do that up to 3 times);
3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (easy but irreversible);
4) Move the folder Other options (follow the link with that name) with Illy closed (more tedious but also more thorough and reversible);
5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options (follow the link with that name, Item 7) is a list of usual suspects among other applications that may disturb and confuse Illy, Item 15) applies to CC, CS6, and maybe CS5);
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6) Uninstall, run the Cleaner Tool, and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

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In your Muse preferences make sure that your smart guides are turned on:

Indesign cs6, smart guides on, transform not proportional

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can anyone else recreate this issue?
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thanks in advance
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okay, i finally figured this bad boy out! here is the solve in case you guys come across the problem
-indesign cs6, go to preferences>guides and pasteboard
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all is well with the world, and i can sleep peacefully once again

Smart object or duplicate layer/ decrease resolution or free transform

Hi all
I would appreciate some advice on a few questions I have regarding PS.
1) I intend to place an image I have been working on into another file in photoshop. To keep file size down and to keep as much quality as possible which is my best option? The options I see available to me are to save the file as a TIFF
and then duplicate the layer into the new file or to place the image as a smart object. Or is there a better way?
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On top of what Zeno Bokor wrote that while your doing the transform your viewing a quick scaled preview not the actual transformation you wrote
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Hi. After I have loaded a picture into Photoshop some of the menu tools are greyed out and I cannot use the keyboard short cut, for instance I cannot use Ctrl T to enter free transform mode. Also the toolbar is so small I cannot see the icons without ge

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Derek

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Illustrator CS4 Smart Guides Don't Match Transform Panel

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I don't really understand you, I'm afraid. do you mean to snap to the tangent handles?
Mylenium

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etc.,
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My smart guides are not working in Illustrator CC

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J.Beech,
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