From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Working with Shapes
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Custom shapes
From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Working with Shapes
Custom shapes
- As well as our regular shapes, our rectangles, ellipses and polygons, we also have the Custom Shape Tool. When you choose it, you'll have access to this dropdown on your tool options bar, and the first time you access this, these are the shapes that you'll see. There are actually a lot more available to you, if you come to the gear, and then you can load your shape sets either thematically or you can load them all. I'm going to load them all. I'm going to Append them to what I already have. I'll now scroll down, and I'm going to choose this shape. Now, all of these shapes are fully editable and scalable vectors. And everything that we've mentioned thus far, applies to Custom Shapes. Everything in terms of changing the Fill and the Stroke, and drawing them. So to draw them, if you want to keep them proportional, hold down the Shift key. If you want to move it while you're drawing it, hold down the Space bar. And let's say I want to change the color of that, I'm going to double-click…
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