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Making Path in a shape of an Ellipise or a Rectangle
Hi
Sorry for asking this rather simple question, but I didn’t find any answer to my problem after hours of searching. Thought I found some info on how to Auto-trace shapes and convert mask paths into shape paths, and vice versa.
My problem is this:
I have an object, and I want it animated by following a path of a perfect circle or a square (or any other object like a Star or a Polygon). It can either keep looping around the particular shape/path or it can follow only a portion of a shape/path. For instance, if I want my object to follow a 25% of a perfect circle.
What I tried so far:
I’ve made a shape of a circle, and then Auto-traced it from Layer menu. Then I tried copying it and pasting it onto the Path property of another object, but that didn’t work.
I know how to draw a custom path with a Pen tool, but I would like my object to follow a path of a perfect circle, square, star or whatever. Or only a portion of it.
How is this done exactly?
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3 Replies
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Copy path… Paste into Position property for layer
Richard M. Harrington, PMP
Author: Video Made on a Mac, Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Studio On the Spot and ATS:iWork
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Took me some time to figure out what you meant, but I ended up making it work, by creating a shape (which became mask) with my comp selected, marking Mask Path, copy, marking Comp > Position, paste. And deleting the mask ofc.
Thanks anyway 🙂
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Yes… I’m often short with answers… often once you know what something is called you can do a search here on Cow with additional terms and find a detailed answer.
This topic comes up every few weeks… so I didn’t go into detail. Glad you got it working
Richard M. Harrington, PMP
Author: Video Made on a Mac, Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Studio On the Spot and ATS:iWork
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