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  Aligning shapes within a single shape layer

  Posted by Kaushik Ghara on August 11, 2011 at 3:32 pm

  I have a Shape layer with couple of Ellipse, Rectangle and Polystar shapes. Is there a way to align them as we do for aligning layers ?

  Presently, I am using guides and Ctrl-clicking the individual shapes and positioning them using their anchor points. Would like to know if this is the correct way of doing it or is there a better and faster technique.

  Kaushik Ghara replied 14 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Greg Burrus

  August 11, 2011 at 3:53 pm

  Have you tried just using the align options in the align panel under windows in the top menu? I would think that would be quicker. This script might also help in aligning the anchor point. https://aescripts.com/repositionanchorpoint/

  hope this helps

  Greg

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  Kaushik Ghara

  August 11, 2011 at 5:39 pm

  Thanks for your response Greg.

  The Align panel works only for aligning multiple layers. In my case, there is only one shape layer which contains multiple shapes. I need to align these shapes within one layer.

  As there is only one layer, the Align panel won’t work.
  Thanks for the script. I will go through it.

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