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If it is true, why would Adobe do this? Combining paths is so important when it comes to aligning. And being able to transform a path by using path selection tool was also very important. Why do we have to press ctl+t to start transforming...?

I thought maybe you can't transform paths because you can subtract/add/intersect shape layers as a whole...but you can't. C

Can you subtract shape layers from each other?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFkrOByQE58

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A) Select the Move Tool and then check "Show Transform Handles" in the Control Bar across the top of the screen.

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B) all the path operations are still available, they have simply been moved to a menu rather than buttons.

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About A) where is this option i cant find any – Muhammad Umer Dec 17 '12 at 19:26
About B) that is cool i dont know how i missed it. – Muhammad Umer Dec 17 '12 at 19:28
I meant path selection tool not direct selection, sorry about that. I know i could resize and stuff in cs5 easily with this now i can only drag it around. – Muhammad Umer Dec 17 '12 at 19:37
Do you know you could free transform paths inside a shape in cs5...lets say i have 2 rectangles in one shape. and i want to make one smaller. I could just click it using path selection tool and then resize. – Muhammad Umer Dec 17 '12 at 19:42
i noticed one more thing: you can actually combine to different paths but from Layers>Combine shapes> &so on... But if you try to do it using path selection tool or direct selection tool from the option bar either it would be grayed out or wont be there. – Muhammad Umer Dec 17 '12 at 19:43
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