Forum: Photoshop

Subject: path control point dragging - ?

AnthonyJr opened this issue on Apr 30, 2003 · 11 posts

AnthonyJr posted Wed, 30 April 2003 at 3:31 AM

Dear friends, I'm sure you can help me in the following situation: I made a closed path with "Pen" tool and need to drag some points in different diections. But I don't remember how I did it before with "Direct Selection" Tool. Now I can drag only the whole path, i. e. move it and I need to move only one point a wee to correct the curve form. Please do help as I failed to find the reply in the manual. Grateful for your help, Anthony Junior.

dreamer101 posted Wed, 30 April 2003 at 12:52 PM

The (black arrow) Path Selection Tool will move the selection. The (white arrow) Direct Selection Tool will move the point/lines between points.

karosnikov posted Thu, 01 May 2003 at 2:51 PM

if you want to move the handles so your moved point is right you may want to use a combination of the "convert point" (under pen) and the "white" mouse pointer.... you may want to turn on View _ show -target path and deselect the path. because you may have more than one selected when you move the one point. so this method of useage could be of some help > - almost all tools have an alternate use so when you click in the corner of the standard arrow shaped selection tool icon -the two options are "Path selection" and "direct selection" - some times to select a one particular point I click and drag over a particular point becasue some time the little squares I click on and I move a bit of the path between the points LOL ... so it's basicly method of operation.