Moving Selection by Pixels

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orljustin
Apr 19, 2006
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Hey,

In Illustrator, I can tranform an object by typing in values. I think I’m just missing something in Photoshop, but I just want to nudge something by 1/2 a pixel or other value, and I can’t find a way to do it. I’m not finding anything googling either.

Any sugs? I’m trying to align some things for an animation, so I don’t want to keep jumping into a filter or something.

Thanks!

oj
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Kingdom
Apr 19, 2006
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Hey,

In Illustrator, I can tranform an object by typing in values. I think I’m just missing something in Photoshop, but I just want to nudge something by 1/2 a pixel or other value, and I can’t find a way to do it. I’m not finding anything googling either.

Any sugs? I’m trying to align some things for an animation, so I don’t want to keep jumping into a filter or something.

Thanks!

oj

Arrow keys!

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lennier1
Apr 19, 2006
Kingdom wrote:
wrote in news:1145459836.410817.55080
@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:

Hey,

In Illustrator, I can tranform an object by typing in values. I think I’m just missing something in Photoshop, but I just want to nudge something by 1/2 a pixel or other value, and I can’t find a way to do it. I’m not finding anything googling either.

Any sugs? I’m trying to align some things for an animation, so I don’t want to keep jumping into a filter or something.

Thanks!

oj

Arrow keys!

Or "free transform" (or whatever it´s called in your version). You´ll find it under "edit" in the sub-menu for rotation, flipping and similar stuff).
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orljustin
Apr 19, 2006
Kingdom wrote:
wrote in news:1145459836.410817.55080
@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:

Hey,

In Illustrator, I can tranform an object by typing in values. I think I’m just missing something in Photoshop, but I just want to nudge something by 1/2 a pixel or other value, and I can’t find a way to do it. I’m not finding anything googling either.

Any sugs? I’m trying to align some things for an animation, so I don’t want to keep jumping into a filter or something.

Thanks!

oj

Arrow keys!

No, arrow keys are moving the smallest amount I can move with my mouse. I want sub-arrow key movement – I want to type in a value.

oj

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Charley
Apr 19, 2006
The minimum that you can move is one pixel at a time. Select the move tool, but then use the keyboard arrows instead of the mouse. Each click of the key will bump the image one pixel.

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Kingdom wrote:
wrote in news:1145459836.410817.55080
@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:

Hey,

In Illustrator, I can tranform an object by typing in values. I think I’m just missing something in Photoshop, but I just want to nudge something by 1/2 a pixel or other value, and I can’t find a way to do it. I’m not finding anything googling either.

Any sugs? I’m trying to align some things for an animation, so I
don’t
want to keep jumping into a filter or something.

Thanks!

oj

Arrow keys!

No, arrow keys are moving the smallest amount I can move with my mouse. I want sub-arrow key movement – I want to type in a value.
oj

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lennier1
Apr 20, 2006
wrote:
Kingdom wrote:
No, arrow keys are moving the smallest amount I can move with my mouse. I want sub-arrow key movement – I want to type in a value.
Like I said before: Use the "transform" command. It´ll let you move the selected data by half pixels.
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orljustin
Apr 20, 2006
lennier1 wrote:
wrote:
Kingdom wrote:
No, arrow keys are moving the smallest amount I can move with my mouse. I want sub-arrow key movement – I want to type in a value.
Like I said before: Use the "transform" command. It´ll let you move the selected data by half pixels.

I don’t want to scale, rotate, skew, distort or perspective. I just want to move. I want to make a selection and move it right by 100 pixels. Or 100.5 .

oj
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lennier1
Apr 20, 2006
wrote:
lennier1 wrote:

wrote:

Kingdom wrote:
No, arrow keys are moving the smallest amount I can move with my mouse. I want sub-arrow key movement – I want to type in a value.

Like I said before: Use the "transform" command. It´ll let you move the selected data by half pixels.

I don’t want to scale, rotate, skew, distort or perspective. I just want to move. I want to make a selection and move it right by 100 pixels. Or 100.5 .

oj
That´s what the first two fields in "free fransform" are for (the ones with the coordinates. Just change the desired coordinates (X or Y) and you´ll see. I only have the German version on my PC and therefore am unable to help you with the exact name of the command.
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orljustin
Apr 20, 2006
lennier1 wrote:
wrote:
lennier1 wrote:

wrote:

Kingdom wrote:
No, arrow keys are moving the smallest amount I can move with my mouse. I want sub-arrow key movement – I want to type in a value.

Like I said before: Use the "transform" command. It´ll let you move the selected data by half pixels.

I don’t want to scale, rotate, skew, distort or perspective. I just want to move. I want to make a selection and move it right by 100 pixels. Or 100.5 .

oj
That´s what the first two fields in "free fransform" are for (the ones with the coordinates. Just change the desired coordinates (X or Y) and you´ll see. I only have the German version on my PC and therefore am unable to help you with the exact name of the command.

Hey,

Thanks for keeping up on me. I wasn’t running with the option bar up. Funny that that is the only place you can do that from.

Thanks!

oj
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Kingdom
Apr 20, 2006
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lennier1 wrote:
wrote:
Kingdom wrote:
No, arrow keys are moving the smallest amount I can move with my mouse.
I want sub-arrow key movement – I want to type in a value.
Like I said before: Use the "transform" command. It

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