Manipulating type anchor points?
Is there a way to manipulate the anchor points in type to change the type like you can in Illustrator?
Thanks.
So I'm guessing by doing this the text will show up the same on any computer that the .psd is opened on regardless if the font is installed or not?
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I just started of with flash, and while checking the drawing abilities I ran into a snag.
I draw out a certain image with as few anchor points as possible using curves, after it's done I keep running into lots of extra anchor points the program keeps adding between the ones I defined. This makes manipulating the image later a lot more difficult than necessary. Is there an option to set a limit for this or turn it off all together? There must be, but I can't seem to find it. Even if later on for animating it becomes necessary to add more points I'd still like to be able to decide how many, and where should those points be.
I tried searching for this but couldn't find any useful answers.
Another thing I'd like to ask though I probably know the answer already. Is there a way to use transformations on a selected set of anchor points while maintaining connection to the rest? It can be done in illustrator, but not here as far as I can tell.
Thanks in advance.Try moving the 'top' anchor down a little bit. I have run into a few issues when the anchor was to close to the top of the canvas for example JS not smooth scrolling, it would just jump to the top or it would not do a thing like what you are experiencing.
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Anchor point not working with pinned page navigation link
Anchor point at top of page, named top, does not function when clicking on pinned navigation link text. Correct link has been made in the Links menu. What procedure might overcome this functional problem?
I have the same type of anchor point named 'top' on other pages and the pinned navigation link works fine on those pages. For some reason only one page shows this problem.
Thanks,
TimTry moving the 'top' anchor down a little bit. I have run into a few issues when the anchor was to close to the top of the canvas for example JS not smooth scrolling, it would just jump to the top or it would not do a thing like what you are experiencing.
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Put convert anchor points options in Keyboard Shortcuts
I have two objects with the exact same border path and multiple types of points within the border. I believe that the only way to covert two corner points (at the exact same location) into smooth points (and thus maintain the exact same path for both) is to use the Control panel method (paste in from Help, below). This requires going clear up to the Control panel. I wish that both of these Control panel options where available under Keystroke Shortcuts. This would allow much faster operation that the long trip for my mouse or pen on my large Wacom board.
-------> From AI Help file:
Convert one or more anchor points using the Control panel
To use the anchor point conversion options in the Control panel, only relevant anchor points, not the entire object, should be selected. If you select multiple objects, one of the objects must be only partially selected. When entire objects are selected, the Control panel options change to those that affect the entire object.
To convert one or more corner points to smooth points, select the points and then click the Convert Selected Anchor Points To Smooth button in the Control panel.
To convert one or more smooth points to corner points, select the points and then click the Convert Selected Anchor Points To Corner button in the Control panel.The buttons are not recordable.
> I believe that the only way to covert two corner points (at the exact same location) into smooth points (and thus maintain the exact same path for both)
Unless I'm misunderstanding your description, Illustator's new but lame convert buttons do not really meet your criteria anyway. The Convert to Smooth button does not merge two coincident corner points on the same path into a single smooth point. You still have two points.
If the two coincident points are actually endpoints of two separate paths, CtrlShiftAlt-J will average their positions, join and merge them.
The convert point type commands should be located in proper contextual cursor menus in AI. But AI does not really have proper contextual cursor menus.
AI's confused interface has pretty much run out of practical keyboard shortcuts.
Illustrator's new convert anchorpoint buttons are very lame compared to the features that have long existed in Adobe's other drawing program, FreeHand. The convert to corner button should not retract existing handles. The convert to smooth should not always extend handles. Provision should be made for individual retraction/auto-extension when converting.
We are not seeing Adobe leverage the rights to better functionality it gained when it acquired Macromedia. We are only seeing cheap, piecemeal imitations and lip-service toward the still-superior functionality in the acquired program.
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Can't select anchor points of some shapes in Photoshop CC 2014
I have a multi-layered file with a number of shape objects. When I go to the direct selection tool and try to click on an anchor point the points simply do not show up. Is there some property that I am not aware of that prevents selection?
Can you upload the psd file. The Path palette shows a very small triangle path on the right edge of the canvas up some from the bottom of the document. With the direct path tool active and the shape layer targeted even if no point is selected I would expect the see the path outline shown in the Path Palette for the shape layer to be shown in the image window also I see none. Can you see the path outline? Are you on a Mac I'm on a PC using cc2014 with todays update
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FAQ: Why isn't the anchor point centered in shape layers?
[UPDATE: In After Effects CC (12.1) and later, you can center the anchor point within the visible content of a layer. ]
Short answer
Because in shape layers you can have two distinct kinds of anchor points - the anchor point in the main transform properties, as in any other layer type, and also an anchor point in the specific transform properties for each shape. When you create shapes by dragging with the shape tools, it's the anchor point for the shape group that will be centered. If you want to animate the whole layer from the main transform properties, you may need to shift the anchor point so it matches the visual center of your content.
Long answer
Shape layers are a unique type of content in After Effects.
In fact, they introduce a bit of the object/group hierarchy model in Adobe Illustrator, rather than follow the typical layer model in After Effects.
In other words, while you can definitely use them to quickly create a vector shape and then animate that shape as any other layer in After Effects, you also get the ability to create, edit and animate multiple shapes (each with its' own set of visual appearances) nested in a single shape layer.
This allows all kinds of cool animation opportunities, but it also means that a shape layer is not your typical After Effects layer.
So, when you create a shape by dragging with the shape tool, there actually is an anchor point that is perfectly centered - that's the anchor point in the transform property group for that shape group. If you double click a shape, you'll see a bounding box. This a visual representation of the transform properties for the shape group, and the anchor point specific to this group will default to the middle of that bounding box.
However, the main anchor point for the whole shape layer may not be centered relative to the shape content. This is normal behavior - Note that if After Effects tried to center the layer anchor point relative to the first shape group you create, it would be immediately wrong when you add more shape groups to the layer. Or when you animate shape groups around.
Now, as many other things in After Effects, shape layers are designed to let you go as deep as you want. Ideally, you may want to try animating the transform properties for each shape group, since there's when things get really powerful. However, if you want to consider shape layers as a one shape per layer entity and animate in that way, you can of course do that. Bear in mind that you may need to center the anchor point yourself relative to the visual center of the content. If you don't do this, the shape layer's content will be offset from motion paths, or behave in a different way from what you may expect when animating scale or rotation.
To do this, make sure you're not selecting a nested shape group but the shape layer itself, then you can do the following:
Use the Pan Behind tool as with any other layer (this may not give what you want if you do it after creating a motion path, since it will modify position values).
Drag the hot text for the Anchor Point property in the Timeline panel, as if it was a slider. You can then re-thread the content relative to the motion path. You can also achieve this by Option- (Mac OS) or Alt- (Windows) dragging with the Pan Behind tool.
For more information on shape layers, see Drawing, painting and paths in After Effects Help.THANK YOU SO MUCH :-)
I didn't knew this shortcut as I didn't have to use it anyway.
but it's weird because all the other tools like even the circular gradient tool have their point visible.
Anyway, I guess you can press H with any tools.
Again, thank you, I should have ask it before. ;-) -
How can I use anchor points in Photoshop CC?
I'm using a trial version of Photoshop CC and I am trying to put a formed border around some text. I was able to do this with my other Photoshop program with manipulating anchor points. The CC version is layed out differently. How can I use and form anchor points?
Hi Sheryl. I must admit, I looked at your post earlier, and it was too obscure to get a handle on (did I really just say 'handle'? ). But I think I can see where you are coming from now. Yes, the manipulation of paths has changed a wee bit with CC, but it is pretty intuitive, and a lot of it will still work fine using your old methodology.
Take a look at some of these Julieanne Kost blog posts
https://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/tag/path-selection-tool
I find the most reliable way to make individual point selection work first time every time, is to select the Direct Selection tool > and with the shape/path layer selected, drag a tiny marquee around your target point. You can then click drag that point to edit the shape or path.
But there are so many ways to do the sort of thing you are talking about. If you make a copy of the text layer, and make the lower of the two in the layer stack bigger (Free Transform with Alt Shift) you can then turn that lower text layer into a path or shape to manipulate it.
Or you could add a broad stroke around the text on a new layer. Ctrl click the stroke to load it as a selection, and turn the selection into a path using the icon at the bottom of the Paths panel, and then manipulate its points. If you want to make the stroke a solid filled layer, then I don't know of a better way than dragging a marquee around the inner points wth Direct Selection tool, and hitting Delete.
It's an interesting subject, so please keep asking about anything you are not sure about. -
How do I dial in the anchor point for 3D rotation?
Flash knows where the anchor point is in 3D space in order for the symbol to rotate around it, but I can't seem to figure out how to see the coordinates of the anchor point or type in new ones. Please tell me how to do this. I am already very annoyed that Lynda, a pay service, doesn't think this is vital information. Apparently they think we would never want to do anything more visually stimulating than one simple spinning logo! But I digress...
Just to be clear, I know how to move the anchor point visually on the stage, but I want accuracy. I want to be able to give two symbols the exact same coordinates to rotate around.
Thanks for your help.Thank you! That's exactly what I was looking for.
I also found a work around to what I was trying to do. You can select multiple symbols and rotate them around one axis, but that's not as accurate. BTW if you have any links to using 3D in CS4 that are beyond basic, I would love to see them.
Thanks again,
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Have anchor points snap to grid changed?
My anchor points used to snap to the grid when using the pen tool on a 1px before in Adobe Illustrator CC 2014. Has this changed for this version?
If not, does anyone know how I would be able to enable this feature again? I have all my snap to grid settings etc. on.THIS IS REALLY FRUSTRATING (and I'm not the type to use all caps all over the place). Here are the repro steps (in case that were helpful):
Illustrator CS6
Turn on snap to grid.
Create a circle.
Drag out each of the handles closer to the corners of the circle's space.
Notice that the handles snap to the intersection points on the grid.
Illustrator CC (18.0.0)
Turn on snap to grid.
Create a circle (move it around to double-ensure that snap to grid is functioning properly for the shape).
Drag out each of the handles.
Notice that there is no way to ensure that the handles move in the exact same amount all the way around the circle. They do not snap.
Try the scale tool. Select a point and hit ‘s’, then drag out a handle. Notice that it still doesn’t snap to point.
This sort of thing is suicide for Illustrator. It’s the one program that should let you make whatever vector shape you want without having to resort to crazy workarounds. How can we make awesome things like this without the kind of control we used to have in Illustrator?
BTW, there's another thread on this topic too:
Restore snap-to-grid behaviour for path handles -
Having a lot of issues manipulating points on paths in Illustrator CC - this is a fundamental feature of creating vector graphics and it's very annoying I'm paying for this and it's just not working. Eating up a lot of my time simply because I can't select or convert or add the anchor.
bella,
Presuming we are not just talking about more or less hidden Anchor Points as in View>Show/Hide Edges/Bounding Box, you may try to start on the following list (5) seems unlikely in this case).
You may try the following (you may have tried/done some of them already) and see whether it helps (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);
Even more seriously, you may:
6) Uninstall, run the Cleaner Tool (if you have CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6/CC), and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html -
Anchor point for cursor seems off
It's like the anchor point for the cursor is way off. I can click paint brush, and the paint will show up halfway across the page. If I keep clicking, the painted spot will finally show up under the cursor and I draw. If I move the cursor, and start again, same problem. If I enter text, the text willl appear so far below the picture, I have to zoom out so far, the the picture is a very small square. I grab the text box and move it back up to the picture, zoom back in and finish. If there is more text, I just duplcate the layer, so I don't have to go through the drill again. Example:
IMG]http://imageshack.us/a/img801/4439/photoshopbrushprob.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://imageshack.us/a/img825/7656/texterror1.jpg[/IMG]
Same problem with drawing a line. I click on the start point, and the line draws itself, off page to the left
[IMG]http://imageshack.us/a/img820/1223/photoshoplineprob.jpg[/IMG]
My video drivers are up to date, I'm working in Win 7 and CS5As for the text: You have a baseline shift of -1000 set and all your otehr values are whacky as well. Reset the type panel. The rest is impossible to make sense of. You need to provide exact system info. could be an issue with your mouse/ tablet driver, could be something else.
Mylenium -
Anchor Points and Intersect Guide Lines Disappeared
Hi! I must have hit some type of command on my keyboard but now my anchor points and intersect guides have disappeared that would normally appear when I roll my mouse over the anchor point or the intersecting paths. I have hit Ctrl + H as well as went to the menu manually and my edges are showing. How do I turn back on this ability to see my anchor points and intersecting lines guide in Illustrator?
Thanks in advance!!
Edit: I run on Adobe Illustrator CS5Is View > Smart Guides turned on? If not, enable it.
If Smart Guides are already turned on, check if Align to Grid is enabled in the View menu and turn it off. -
Shape 3d rotation / anchor point
I'd like to recreate this kind of rotation on shape layers as they have in these transitions.
http://www.sprinklelab.com/our-work/everyme/
I've started off with a square and a centred anchor point, and with the Y axis starting at 75 degrees moving down to zero I can get a similar effect, but obviously hasn't got the same dynamic look as in the video. It's almost as if they have two anchors, or a diagonal anchor? I know these things sound ridiculous but I can't get my head around it.
How would one go about creating this type of rotation? I don't have my mathematical/ geometric brain on today.
Thanks all!Thanks for the help guys. I have taken the proj and played around with it, not much success so far, it nearly is where I want it but 1 Can't seem to set the 'back' and 2 it doesn't stay anchored at those points as in the example
Card wipe would be exactly what I need if it would work for this 3D style of rotating the orientation. In what I created some are just, floating? But I just cant figure out how to get all the cards to simultaneously change ( but still staggered/ one starts a slight bit before the next) and have a centred rotation so that the boxes just flip orientation, and don't come away from eachother.
This is the best I can do, is it possible and I'm just a bit rubbish at using this effect? No matter what I change I don't seem to be able to get a better result.
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Adjusting multiple anchor points of a path
In CS5, and in various documentation it doesn't appear possible to be a way to move multiple anchor points (as it is, in Photoshop). If this is the case... are you kidding me? Even Photoshop can do this.
Quite frankly, on my return to Illustrator, it's, as expected, Adobe has pulled a fast one with their suite of software. What was broken years ago is still broken today.
Photoshop needs the ability to add gradients to shapes, path brushing, symbols, ie the functionality of Illustrator needs to be placed into Photoshop.Are you saying that if you use the direct select tool and hold down the shift key and select several anchor points you can't move them with the arrow keys?
I certainly can without any problem? It maybe that the increment that they are being moved at is smaller than you would prefer and you can change that in the Preferences.
Also unlike photoshop if you select multiple points in AI you can than drag one of them and the other selected points will move as well.
If you need more support for manipulateing path look at the Astute plug in Vectorscribe. -
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Hello,
I need to do a lot of animation stand type moves on a bunch of still photos... "the ken burns effect" or what have you...
I prefer to do these animations by animating the scale and the anchor point, instead of the center, since that will make the moves a little easier to control, but i can't figure out how to visually change the anchor point, instead of entering numbers, I'd like to use something like the cross hairs i can use to modify the center paramater... possible?
Also, to ease in and ease out of the moves, I am able to smooth the scaling paramater by right clicking on the keyframe and selecting smooth, but no such option appears on the anchor point or center point keyframes, so i can't smoothly finish a move that has both a zoon and a pan...
any suggestions?
JoshType a number, any reasonable number (like 35), into the Anchor Point parameters box. In the Canvas, if you set it to show Image + Wireframe, you will see the Anchor Point you just added.
Now, hover your Selector pointer over the point, and your cursor changes to look like the Distortion Tool. Click and drag it. Coopl, huh?
For Ease in/Ease Out, right-click (or Control Click on the Anchor Point in the Canvas. Then you see the Ease in/Ease Out option. Same thing for Center Point.
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