Return-Path: Received: from [95.142.156.14] (HELO mail4-1.eqx.gridhost.co.uk) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 5314425 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:32:31 +0100 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=[192.168.0.100]) by mail4-c.eqx.gridhost.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1VqjwX-0006pD-5P for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 13:35:13 +0000 Message-ID: <52A86A0F.2080806@vantagegraphics.co.uk> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 13:35:11 +0000 From: Mike Abbott User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: After Effects Mail List Subject: Re: [AE] Flipping a Mask References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------090708070101000509040607" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------090708070101000509040607 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 11/12/2013 12:31, Mr. Eric D. Kirk wrote: > Yes, that's actually what I ended up doing. Just was hoping to figure > out what was actually done though. On PC here's what I do: Ctrl D - to duplicate mask. Ctrl T - to bring up the mask free transform box *Ctrl* drag a side, or top, handle to scale the mask *around its centre* - this enables you to then visually match the size of the transform box against the size of the original mask. Shift drag to position the mask against the original with one side or vertex touching - zoom in at this stage if necessary. Quicker to do than type :) Mike --------------090708070101000509040607 Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

On 11/12/2013 12:31, Mr. Eric D. Kirk wrote:

Yes, that's actually what I ended up doing. Just was hoping to figure out what was actually done though.

On PC here's what I do:

Ctrl D - to duplicate mask.
Ctrl T - to bring up the mask free transform box
Ctrl drag a side, or top, handle to scale the mask around its centre - this enables you to then visually match the size of the transform box against the size of the original mask.
Shift drag to position the mask against the original with one side or vertex touching - zoom in at this stage if necessary.

Quicker to do than type :)

Mike
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