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Newbie question: Resizing rectangles
Posted by William Cousert on April 14, 2008 at 7:09 pmI’m just starting out with AE CS3 and I’m having a problem that’s driving me nuts!
I drew a rectangle on a blank composition. So far, so good. When I attempted to resize it by dragging the lower right corner, the upper left corner moves by the same exact amount.
I want resize to work the same as it does in Illustrator.
What am I doing wrong?
Miguel angel Duran replied 12 years, 7 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies -
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Lars Bunch
April 14, 2008 at 7:32 pmHi,
Dave: He used a shape layer in CS3.
William: As far as I can tell, this is how shape layers work. But if you create a solid and draw a mask, then when you adjust the mask borders, they will resize only in the direction you pull them in.
Create a solid (Command-Y) and make it the comp size.
Use the same button you used to create the shape layer, but with the solid selected in the time line. This will draw a mask onto the solid.
With the mask visible in the comp window, double click on the mask border. This will bring up a resize border.
If you then pull on the corners, they will resize only in one direction (unless you hold down Command-Shift as you resize.)
Hope this helps,
Lars
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Ian Collister
April 14, 2008 at 7:34 pmIncluding this, there’s a few other things i wish AE could inherit from Illustrator.
Anyone at Adobe listening? Anyone? 🙂
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William Cousert
April 14, 2008 at 7:39 pmSorry, you are correct. I am totally new at this.
Dragging the lower right corner of my rectangle…
.............+-------------+ .............|.............| .............|.............| .............|.............| .............|.............| .............+-------------+ should result in this... .............+-------------+---+ .............|.............|...| .............|.............|...| .............|.............|...| .............|.............|...| .............+-------------+...| .............|.................| .............|.................| .............+-----------------+ Not this... ..........+--------------------+ ..........|....................| ..........|....................| ..........|..+-------------+...| ..........|..|.............|...| ..........|..|.............|...| ..........|..|.............|...| ..........|..|.............|...| ..........|..+-------------+...| ..........|....................| ..........|....................| ..........+--------------------+
(replace the .’s with spaces. the board don’t like multiple spaces)
What am I doing wrong?
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Miguel angel Duran
July 18, 2012 at 11:34 pmBeat around the bush much? He is simply asking if it’s possible to constrain resizing to only a particular corner. Rather than dragging a corner and resizing the whole shape…
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