Adjustment handle issues

HI
My adjustment handles for scaling images have lost their colour, they have all turned white and are not working as they used to. Does anyone know how to "reset " this ?

Thanks

Click ‘Shift’ again. You can read at the bottom in status bar.

You Legend ! thank you. Why is there this option ? does it serve a particular purpose ?

It seems that “Fixed pins” give more precise control over individual adjustments.
Green pin scales and rotates, red pin moves, blue pin scales and shears, yellow pin distorts.

When you switch to “Free pin mode” the pins turn white and can only move corners of the texture allowing to directly move, scale, rotate and distort.

Source: Sketchup help center - Positioning textures

The unfixed pins allow you do do things like adjust texture images to correct for perspective distortion. These two use the same image for the texture. The one on the left is the original image as a texture with no manipulation. The one on the right has been manipulated by dragging the non-fixed pins to get the courses to appear horizontal. I guess it could still use a little fine tuning.


Best would be to have the camera properly aligned with the face when making a photograph for a texture but that’s not always possible.

Here’s that texture in editing mode.