Assets

[Baker]

Hi, Just downloaded the recent assets  ie rain,snow etc.  When I try to use them they are always oversize. Im not refering to file size but the outline of the asset is bigger than my 26" screen. I know i can drag the sides and top in but this is a bit annoying as you cant do a quick look to see if it is the look i want.   Im sure theres something very simple causing this but I cant find it ?? Please help.

[Komatös]

Hi @Baker

There is no other option than to manually adjust the width and height.

 

[v_kyr]

Depending on the respective assets themselves, they have different sizes (W x H in px etc.) in which they were created and added to the assets panel. If you drag an asset from the Assets Panel into a document, it does not dynamically adjust itself to the size of the document; instead, it is always inserted in its initial size. - Therefore you have to adjust the size of the respective asset to the size of the document yourself.

Another manual way instead of grabbing the handles of an dragged in asset (in order to adjust it's size), is to select it's group in the layers panel and then to change it's w x h value settings in the transformation panel.

[R C-R]

5 hours ago, Hens said:

Double click the asset in the assetspanel and it will behave like "place" and you can drag to the size you want from topleft, use the ctrl key to drag from center,click to place it centered at mousepointer position at the original size

On Macs, use CMD instead of CTRL to drag from center. Holding down CTRL on Macs will show a preview of the asset as soon as you start to drag on the canvas -- I am not sure that is of much use.

[jmwellborn]

14 minutes ago, R C-R said:

On Macs, use CMD instead of CTRL to drag from center. Holding down CTRL on Macs will show a preview of the asset as soon as you start to drag on the canvas -- I am not sure that is of much use.

Apparently what I am doing is not according to Hoyle, because when I double click on the asset, and use CMD (or anything else) and drag from the center, the asset appears upside down.  Double clicking on the asset and placing it without CMD allows right side up placement at any size one wishes.  (I have no special shortcuts in Preferences.)

[v_kyr]

All of the above methods to place/add an asset still need a manual/custom size adjustments. - Though the double click placement might be the best here, in order to quickly adjust an asset to a desired size. Where the Ctrl/Cmd-Drag, which then in contrast gives a preview of an assets initial size and look here during a drag operation, can't be abandoned during that dragging state, in order to get just a preview without applying the drag.

The Assets Panel itself might be missing some sort of zoomed preview functionality here for a selected asset, in order to get a bigger quick look of an asset before dragging/placing it into the document. - Actually one always has to place/drag and remove it afterwards, if it is probably not one with the wanted look.

[R C-R]

12 minutes ago, jmwellborn said:

Apparently what I am doing is not according to Hoyle, because when I double click on the asset, and use CMD (or anything else) and drag from the center, the asset appears upside down.

For me, with or without using CMD to drag from center, if I drag rightward & downward the asset is placed right side up. If I drag upward & leftward, it is placed upside down. It works the same way for placing images.

[R C-R]

1 minute ago, v_kyr said:

All of the above methods to place/add an asset still need a manual/custom size adjustments.

It isn't a single step solution but if for some reason you can't set the size you want precisely enough using the double-click method, can't you do that using the Transform Panel after adding the asset?

Another approach might be to use snapping, particularly snapping to preset guides or to a grid.

[jmwellborn]

7 minutes ago, R C-R said:

For me, with or without using CMD to drag from center, if I drag rightward & downward the asset is placed right side up. If I drag upward & leftward, it is placed upside down. It works the same way for placing images.

Well I'll be darned!  Photo, Lesson One.  Good old rulers help too.   Just to be sure that the rightward and downward thing works as planned, it helps to plunk the mouse in the crosshairs! I tried @v_kyr's snowmen who look so much better right side up!

[R C-R]

14 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

The Assets Panel itself might be missing some sort of zoomed preview functionality here for a selected asset, in order to get a bigger quick look of an asset before dragging/placing it into the document. - Actually one always has to place/drag and remove it afterwards, if it is probably not one with the wanted look.

Not sure about Windows, but on Macs a (not very elegant) workaround for that might be using the CTRL drag to preview the asset at full size on the canvas/artboard, & if it is not the wanted one to abort placing it, for example by tapping the escape key, double-clicking on another asset, or switching to another tool.

BTW, while we are on the subject of placing assets, I think it would be useful of the placed asset always automatically used the name of the asset in the Layers panel. At least for me, that does not happen consistently but I don't know why it sometimes does & other times does not.

[v_kyr]

26 minutes ago, R C-R said:

It isn't a single step solution but if for some reason you can't set the size you want precisely enough using the double-click method, can't you do that using the Transform Panel after adding the asset?

Look above what I've shown via screenshots and told before!

[R C-R]

2 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

Look above what I've shown via screenshots and told before!

If you mean using the Transform panel then yes, you showed how to use that, but I was responding to your later comment about still needing manual/custom size adjustments. Isn't that what the Transform panel provides now?

[v_kyr]

17 minutes ago, R C-R said:

but I was responding to your later comment about still needing manual/custom size adjustments. Isn't that what the Transform panel provides now?

Yes, either way, if a placed/dragged asset is initially to huge, or maybe the other way around not huge enough, one has to adjust it to personal size needs. Aka via afterwards dragging box handles accordingly, or via altering size values in the transform panel.