Center image inside Circle

Nicola,

If you actually wish to have the same corner distances, you may:

A1) Copy the camera to the front, then remove the top part (you may Delete Anchor Points) so you just have the rounded rectangle as the outer shape, then centre inside the circle;

A2) Select both camera versions, then click the copy, then bottom align in the Align palette, then delete the copy.

If you wish a visual centring, you may either just move upwards until it looks right (keeping the horizontal position), or centre the lens circle (which seems to be (roughly) visually centred in the camera).

Hello everyone,

thank you for your information.

Is there a link where I can find more Information about eyeballing alignment? I did not find information about it..

The center of the camera icon is not the center of the lens circular shape as you have drawn with your red arrows. You are probably better off eyeballing it. Sometimes when eyeballing alignment in helps to change the view of the first shape to preview. In the preview mode you will see a small crosshair at the center of the shape. You can use that as a guide to align to.

Put the circle on it’s own layer. Change the view with CMD-Y(Mac) or CNTRL-Y(PC). Now move the camera icon until the center of the lens sits over the center of the circle.

or just eyeball it. the geometric centre isn't always going to look right on irregular shapes

Make a rectangle that has the size of the body of the camera.

Align to the circle.

Then move the actual icon to the position of the helper object.