Snapping & alignment guides

How it works

While you move or resize, alignment guides appear the moment an edge or center of your element lines up with an edge or center of another element on screen — the familiar behavior from professional design tools, in visualOS’s signature red. The element snaps precisely onto the guide, so “almost aligned” becomes “aligned”.

• Works with left/right/top/bottom edges and horizontal/vertical centers.
• Works while resizing too — match an image’s width to its neighbor by dragging its corner until the guide appears.
• Snap distance is a few screen pixels, so it helps without grabbing.

Opting out

Hold Cmd/Ctrl while dragging to disable snapping temporarily — for those organic, deliberately-messy arrangements.

Friends of alignment

• The background grid (Settings → Canvas settings) gives your eyes reference lines; it’s visual only and doesn’t snap.
• Rotation snapping: rotating an element gently locks at 0°, 90°, 180°, 270° — see Group, lock & rotate.
• Shift with lines: drawing or adjusting a line with Shift held constrains it to 0°/45°/90°.