• Adobe After Effects

  Drawing shapes with shape tool – Change start point

  Posted by Philip Cole on July 23, 2016 at 7:22 pm

  Hi there folks!

  Reeeeally simple thing that is driving me mad!

  When I try to draw a mask or a shape in AE (or illustrator for that matter) it always starts at a corner and drags out. Now this is fine for a rectangle but when draw an ellipse it would be so much better if it start drawing from the point I clicked my mouse and centered the shape on that point.

  An example of the behaviour I want would be here: https://youtu.be/reSXGxkyr0k?t=245

  See how he clicks and drags and the circle is centred on his initial point? How do I get my AE to do that?!

  Please help!

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  Philip Cole replied 10 years, 1 month ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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  Philip Cole

  July 26, 2016 at 8:32 am

  Hi Dave,

  Thank you so much! I knew it would be a simple shortcut somewhere! 😀

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