Rocket wrote:

In other graphic programs, drawing a shape is like it is in

Photoshop...put

the cursor in the upper left corner of where you want the shape, left

click

and drag down and to the right (using the shift key to constrain).

So it's

easy to draw a quick circle using the ellipse tool. But other programs allow you to right click and drag and the shape grows centered on

where you

clicked. I know Mac users can't right click and Photoshop is a

Mac-centric

program, but surely there is a key press combination that will allow

this.

Anybody?

Rocket, don't get trapped in that idea black-hole that Mac somehow disable usability. Photoshop no longer is Mac-centric. Certainly with the latest version being OSX only, it's build will be closer to PC/Unix than a "traditional" Mac app ever was.

DosBoss57 wrote:

Hold down the Alt key as you drag.
And hold Shift to constrain. so if you are doing a circle, you can hold Alt-Shift as you drag and it will draw from the center and your circle will be perfectly round

Additionally "Alt+/Opt+" draws shapes from the centre of ever graphic app I use, and "Shift+" constrains the same.

Re the post I responded to Eliska earlier:

Eliska,

Really it makes no difference what you use/learn on. It's purely a personal preference as I see it. Probably the greatest problem you'll have is the companies/places/individuals that don't know it doesn't matter, and give you no latitude to change if you want to. I've lost count how many times I've been told by people including tech-support types that they didn't think me buying a 2-, 3- etc. button mouse was a good idea, because Macs use one button...

I've used Macs since 1989, and taught class on PC for the last couple of years... and the differences are moot. I'm still not really sure why Mac continues to ship exclusively a one button mouse, although the new oval one-button smoky optical is probably as sexy as a computer Mouse is ever going to get ;D.

Sure you can use key combinations to achieve the results, but it's notable the Mac OS has supported multi-button all for as long as I've used them. I bought my first Rollerball 3-button Kensington 10 years ago. One of my Macs still has it's original 1-button, however my main mouse of choice is currently a Genius 2-button Optical Rollerball... and as far as I'm aware all Apple graphic apps support multi-button use as well.

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