From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Advanced
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Creating your own custom shape - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Advanced
Creating your own custom shape
- [Narrator] In this movie, I'll show you how to create your own custom shape in the form of this classic 5-pointed star. And the reason we're doing this is because the default stars don't look right. Now let me show you what I mean. I'll go ahead and select that Custom Shape Tool which is the last Shape Tool that I used and then, rather than drawing a pair of scissors I'll go ahead and click on 'em, and I will choose one of these stars from the list right here. So you can see we've got 5-point star and then we also have 5-point star frame. If I select 5-point star however, and then press the enter key, or the return key on the Mac to hide that panel and I go ahead and draw my star like so, you'll see that it's not the right kind of star. It has these steeply sloping angles right here which is not what I want. So, what we need to do, is instead, draw a perfect star using the Shape Tool that lets you draw stars inside Photoshop and then turn it into a Custom Shape so we never have to…
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Photoshop’s alternative to pixels1m 15s
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How vector-based shape layers work5m 34s
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Adjusting the roundness of a rectangle5m 59s
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Creating a dashed or dotted border8m 42s
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Drawing and aligning custom shapes5m 14s
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Creating your own custom shape5m 23s
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Designing a custom shape in Illustrator6m 12s
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Selecting, modifying, and combining shapes7m 43s
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Duplicating and centering shapes6m 21s
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Centering a star inside a circle3m 30s
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Beveling your shapes with Pillow Emboss5m 56s
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Combining shapes into a smart object6m 33s
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Applying lighting and photorealism8m 2s
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Converting text to a shape layer5m 33s
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Editing the shape of a character of type5m 10s
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