The editing preferences control pointer appearance and visual cues for working with bitmap objects.

Precise Cursors replaces tool icon pointers with the cross-hair pointer.

Delete Objects While Cropping permanently deletes pixels or objects that are outside the bounding box of a selection when you select Edit > Crop Document or Modify > Canvas > Canvas Size.

Brush Size Painting Cursors sets the size and shape of the Brush, Eraser, Blur, Sharpen, Dodge, Burn, and Smudge tool pointers to accurately reflect what you are about to draw or erase. For certain large multi-tipped brushes, the cross-hair pointer is used by default. When this option and Precise Cursors are turned off, tool icon pointers are displayed.

Display Striped Border places the familiar striped border around the entire canvas when you are working with bitmap objects (bitmap mode).

Show Pen Preview provides a preview of the next path segment that will be created if you click at that moment with the Pen tool.

Show Solid Points shows selected points as hollow and deselected points as solid.

Turn off "Hide Edges" automatically disables Hide Edges when the selection changes.

Pick Distance lets you specify how close to an object the pointer must be before you can select it. Pick Distance can be between 1 and 10 pixels.

Snap Distance lets you specify how close the object you are moving must be before it snaps to a grid or guide line. Snap Distance works when Snap to Grid or Snap to Guides is turned on. Snap Distance can be between 1 and 10 pixels.