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  • Shift Drag a la Photoshop

    Posted by James Mulryan on July 10, 2006 at 3:36 pm

    Is there a way to move a layer in the viewer by shift dragging to keep it on it’s vertical or horizonal axis.
    I want to keep a text layer imported from Photoshop centered but change it’s vertical position.
    Thank you.

    James Mulryan replied 19 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Rjf E:613

    July 10, 2006 at 3:43 pm

    Sure is! Get the move tool and shift-drag to constrain to vertical or horixontal axis, just like photoshop. I do this all the time.

    You can select the text layer in the timeline and hit “P” for Position, revealing the position parameter. Then you can scrub the vertical (or horizontal) position parameter this way as well.

    rjf

  • James Mulryan

    July 10, 2006 at 4:16 pm

    RJF:

    Thank you for the great info!

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