• Adobe After Effects

  Creating masks by choosing the center!

  Posted by Cyrus Mir on July 24, 2008 at 1:40 pm

  Hi

  Does anyone know how to create a mask by choosing the center and not a corner? For example when you click on ellipse mask tool and then click and drag, the point where you clik is not the center but somehow a corner of the mask. I know there is a short cut for it but I can’t find it.

  Thanks very much

  Cyrus Mir replied 17 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Simon Bonner

  July 24, 2008 at 4:26 pm

  I think Dave uses a mac, but on my pc I can get the effect you’re looking for by holding ctrl as I drag out. Only press ctrl after you’ve started to click and drag with your mouse, otherwise your mask tool cursor will change back into the selection tool cursor and you won’t be able to start drawing.

  In case you don’t know, holding shift allows you to constrain the proportions of the mask.

  Simon Bonner
  
  youtube.com/simonsaysFX
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  Darby Edelen

  July 24, 2008 at 4:47 pm

  Adobe is very good about making keyboard shortcuts standard, even across platforms. The only difference is that on a Mac you would use Option instead of Alt and Command instead of Control.

  So to do what you’re asking on a Mac you would hold the command (apple) key.

  Darby Edelen
  Lead Designer
  Left Coast Digital
  Santa Cruz, CA
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  Cyrus Mir

  July 24, 2008 at 6:05 pm

  Thanks,

  I was pressing Ctrl before clicking the mouse! Small detail, big difference!

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