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Photoshop CS6 how can I delete a handle when using pen tool ?

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
January 7, 2020
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Hi,

CS6

I want one handle out from a anchor point, dragging the other back in and trying to place it onto the anchor point still affects the outgoing curve, its not technically gone, its like brushing dirt under the carpet, well below Adobes prowess for tools., a free photo editor might do so. By now in the evolution of Pshop such an essential thing should be possible, how is it done ?

reading a solution of 'with pen tool selected hold alt and click the handle', all I get is a > tool and it doesnt delete handle.

note CS6.

Cheers

Merlin

How to

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Nika.

Inspiring

so many community proffesional replies and I could not get any correct answer for that qusetion, if you just want only left or right handle for your anchor point this is how you can do it.

#delete only one handle for anchor point

#get only one handle for anchor point

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Yarin22872492gavf

Participating Frequently

Bravo - this might be the only right answer to this on the internet

D Fosse

Community Expert

Could someone please explain how "hold alt and move" (in the video) produces just one handle? I would really like to know, but there's no way I can make that happen. Holding alt loads the Convert Point tool, and we all agree what that does - it either drags out two handles, or it deletes both.

EDIT: Ah...now I get it: If you select the the Convert Point tool in the toolbar, and then hold alt, it will drag out one handle.

I'm used to just having the pen tool selected in the toolbar, and load the convert point tool with the alt key, and direct select tool with the control key. Then it won't work.

Still, this "two fingers on the keyboard" technique, without needing to go to the toolbar, is so fast and efficient that I'm not ready to give it up. Even though I can see the use of just dragging out a single handle.

Theresa J

Community Expert

Chuck's answer is correct, in that you can't simply delete a path handle, only an anchor point. You can drag the handle back into the anchor point with the convert point tool, which essentially removes the handle. That is what you are doing when you use the alt key and get the > tool.

It's always been like this, and for the longest time it was really hard to see the paths, and the anchor points, as you mention. But that has significantly improved with current version of Photoshop. If you were a creative cloud member with the current version, this would be less painful.

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Merlin3Author

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Hi,

drag back in it will be.

Guess I will have to suffer.

If Adobe were to offer a non subscription mode then I would upgrade, I have no subs progs and will resist as long as poss, I like to own things and not be held to ransom, once one goes subs mode you HAVE TO PAY EVEN IF YOU HAVE NO MONEY, else you cant continue at all. There are months I am skint. Also I use a number of progs, may go months not using some, so end up paying for services unused, which I wont do, so if they all went subs I would be out of action financially as subs soon add up. Every subs company assume its your main prog.

Merlin

Chuck Uebele

Community Expert

A path handle can't be deleted. The only thing that can be done is use the convert point tool to break the link with the other handle and move it to the same position as the anchor point. I use scripts all the time with paths and when I read how a path is constructed, the left and right handles are always there, just the same location as the anchor, if the anchor point is a corner.

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Merlin3Author

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Hi,

oh well its zoom right in and place onto anchor point then, a bit archaic but as its dealing with pixels rather than vector graphics where enlargement up would reveal the 'cheat', I guess its that or nothing. Has it always been this way ?

Merlin

Chuck Uebele

Community Expert

Yes, it's always been like this.

Leslie Moak Murray

Community Expert

To delete an anchor point in CS6, just touch it with the pen tool and it goes away.

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r-bin

Legend

Maybe I didn’t understand anything.
But I will try.
Select the Conver Point Tool. Remove the handles if they are by clicking on a point. Hold "Alt" and use the "Conver Point Tool" to create just one handle of your choice.

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