[Sean Cramer]

Wow. We can do DOF and have complex particle systems, but we can’t add a point to a circle.

I tried your workaround, Darby. If I create a Solid layer and draw an ellipse for a mask, and then try to copy that mask path as a shape path on a Shape Layer, it pastes it as a mask, not a shape–it knows/remembers that it was a mask and treats it as such. Since I can edit the vertices of a mask shape on a Solid layer, I guess that’s what I’ll be using instead of a Shape Layer if I want to start from a parametric shape first.

Thanks for taking the time to respond, Darby.

Eventually I’ll sort out the idiosyncrasies of Solid layers and Shape Layers, but I think ‘first use’ is a good test of how well something has been implemented, and in this user’s opinion, some things don’t work like they should. Here’s one idea… if you can’t add vertices to a parametric shape on a Shape Layer, gray out the pen tool. Granted, that would still be frustrating, because it seems like you should be able to do that, but at least you wouldn’t keep trying to use a tool that was never going to do anything.