vector and alpha

Is there any way to select a bunch of vector points useing an alpha mask?
...direct selection tool .. ??? I want to select all the points that are inside the alpha mask and push/drag them with direct selection tool ,how do i do that??

You mean a vector mask, don't you?

You can click and drag around several anchor points to select them, then move them around.
You can also use transform (CTRL+T) to change the overall size/angle of the path...

Yeah I knew that but if i want to use a an alpha channel to select those anchor points with or make a cirkular selection so i can fetch all anchor points inside that cirkular selection?



You see the anchor points inside the red area? I want to grab all the points inside the "a"-area layer (green ).
Hope someone understand what the heck im talking about ;)



[QUOTE=sPECtre]You mean a vector mask, don't you?

You can click and drag around several anchor points to select them, then move them around.
You can also use transform (CTRL+T) to change the overall size/angle of the path...[/QUOTE]

yes, I do see what you mean , now... And I'm sorry to have to tell you that I don't think that it'll be possible in Photoshop...
How did you create that shape? not in Photoshop, I think?

Well, if you need your selected points to remain connected to the
main object then I don't know of an easy way to do what you're
asking. Only way to do it would be to select the points individually
or in small groups and just hold down shift and keep selecting
points until you got all the ones you want.

However if you can get by with having your selected points
disconnected from the main object then it's fairly simple. Just
duplicate your object/path then use your vector tools to define
a shape and then just use boolean functions to subtract the shape
from your main object then do the opposite with your duplicate.

Here's a complex object with two shape cut out of it:

OK thanx to both of you , was hoping i could create a subgroup and keep them connected. I will just have to do it in a 3dsoftware :(