I can no longer draw shapes, only paths

Forum|Forum|11 months ago
April 25, 2025
3 replies
510 views

I have been making some shapes for masks, now, for some reason I can only create paths. I can no longer grab and resize my shapes, there are no handles on selection. Any rectangle or ellipse I make is now a path.

It's driving me nuts.

Correct answer johannesv24034964

Self-solved... for any future people that are pulling their hair out, I must have accidentally hit shift+ctrl+b 'hide bounding box' which defaults to the path selection and removes all your resize tools.

View -> Show bounding box was the solution

It also removes the bounding box for masks for some reason and grabbing an image inside the mask made it move within the mask itself.

Do not recommend.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Johannes,

Edit: Ton had answered, as had you.

Shift+Ctrl+B is most likely the second most frequent keyboard mishit, following Ctrl+H.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

And not to forget Ctrl+Y for Preview/Outline.

johannesv24034964AuthorCorrect answer

Participant

Self-solved... for any future people that are pulling their hair out, I must have accidentally hit shift+ctrl+b 'hide bounding box' which defaults to the path selection and removes all your resize tools.

View -> Show bounding box was the solution

It also removes the bounding box for masks for some reason and grabbing an image inside the mask made it move within the mask itself.

Do not recommend.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Maybe View > Show Bounding Box helps?

johannesv24034964Author

Participant

Thank you, you got it correct simultaneously as I solved it - that was a good 30 minutes driving me nuts, thank you!

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded