Part of my website development cycle is receiving the website design as an Illustrator file from my graphic designer. From there, I often have to extract design elements (images, layers, outlines) from the Illustrator file, import them (copy/paste) into Photoshop, perhaps do a few manipulations and finally save for web.
In 99% of cases, I required pixel perfect accuracy. Up until today, I used to struggle with retaining the design element size when I’d import it into Photoshop. For example, I’d select an element in Illustrator which is 100px*100px, copy it and paste it in Photoshop. Once in Photoshop it would then be about 98px*99px.
Turns out it’s because anti-aliasing is on by default when you confirm a pasted element into Photoshop. So the solution, simply enough, is to disable anti-aliasing before you confirm the placing of the element in photoshop.
I’ve created a short screencast to cover this issue (view in 1080p to get the full effect):
