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morrisonvp9
morrisonvp9
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March 22, 2018
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Right-click on tools not showing options

  • March 22, 2018
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I'm using After Effects 2018 (15.0.1, build 73) on a Windows 10 PC. Since I updated to the 2018 version, right-clicking on any of the tools does not bring up the options for the respective tool. For example, if I right-click on the marquee tool, it does not show elliptical marquee or any of the others as options I can choose. The only choice I am given is the default rectangle marquee. This is the case for all of the other tools, too. I would appreciate help to resolve this issue.

-Ken M.

Correct answer Mylenium

Right-click? Huh? AE never used it. You simply hold down the left mouse button for the alternate tools pop-up to come in.

Mylenium

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P.M.B
P.M.B
Brainiac
March 22, 2018

I have to agree with Mylenium.  You hold down left mouse button.  Right Clicking has never been the method of revealing tool options.

Maybe a daily multi-vitamin is in order?

~Gutterfish
    morrisonvp9
    morrisonvp9Author
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    March 22, 2018

    Gutterfish: The purpose of these forums is to help people not insult them. Your closing comment was uncalled for and unnecessary.

      P.M.B
      P.M.B
      Brainiac
      March 22, 2018

      morrisonvp9  wrote

      Gutterfish : The purpose of these forums is to help people not insult them. Your closing comment was uncalled for and unnecessary.

      I was trying to help you.  You claimed that right clicking tools in AE prior to 2018 would show the options.

      Now you're claiming that you never really knew how it worked & you'd just assumed it worked the same as it did in PS.

      ~Gutterfish
        Mylenium
        MyleniumCorrect answer
        Brainiac
        March 22, 2018

        Right-click? Huh? AE never used it. You simply hold down the left mouse button for the alternate tools pop-up to come in.

        Mylenium

          morrisonvp9
          morrisonvp9Author
          New Participant
          March 22, 2018

          Thank you. I don't use After Effects very often, so I assumed that right-clicking on the tools functioned the same way it does in Photoshop. I see now that it doesn't. Thanks for the insight.

          -KM

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