Say I have a square and I want to extend nothing but the left size. The way I've found to do that is moving the anchor point to the other side first. If not, I would increse the size of the whole shape altogether.
Isn't there a hold down CTRL type of deal before clicking and dragging? It seem too much of effort having to move to anchor point first.
Not that I am aware of, the closest thing I can think of would be to set an expression to the anchor point and save it as a preset.
var width = thisLayer.sourceRectAtTime().width;
var edge = width/-2;
[edge,value[1]]
But with shape layers, each shape also has it's own transform properties, which gets frustrating. I made a script to centre shapes on the layer position. You're welcome to try it:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gm38jcnmwndn2sp19dfsc/Centre-Shape-by-ShiveringCactus.zip?rlkey=kdvcpkldj4bii9xn8nu5szi1b&st=hck46ikp&dl=1
In both cases, using a free tool like FX Console makes applying them a single click.
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