From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Working with Shapes
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Fill and stroke
From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Working with Shapes
Fill and stroke
- We're going to look at the Fill and Stroke properties of our shape layers. In the case of the rectangle and the ellipse, I can come and click on my Properties panel and I will see, because these are Live shapes, my Fill and my Stroke and my Stroke White, but in the case of the triangle or polygon, when I choose that, I don't see those same properties. So for that reason, I'm going to use my Path Selection tool and when you're in your Path Selection tool, regardless of whether it's a regular shape or a Live shape, you'll see your Fill and your Stroke on your Tool Options bar. Beginning with the rectangle, an easy way to change the color is just to double click on the layer thumbnail or we can use the Fill dropdown and we can also access the Color Picker by clicking on this swatch or we can choose from our existing swatches. So the ellipse, I'm going to apply a gradient. You can edit the gradient here. You can change the type of gradient and you can choose whatever colors are…
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