From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Advanced
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Drawing and aligning custom shapes - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Advanced
Drawing and aligning custom shapes
- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to draw a custom shape inside Photoshop, namely this pair of scissors, and then we'll repeat it a bunch of times, and then, finally, we'll align the scissors into a tidy row and we'll distribute them as well. All right, I'm going to go ahead and switch over to my document in progress. And then, I'll drop down to the Shape tool, click and hold on it, and choose the Custom Shape Tool from the end of the list. And now what you want to do is go up to the Options bar and click on this custom shape, right there, whatever it may look like, at which point, you'll see a bunch of shapes that ship along with Photoshop. Now the thing is, even though the shape we're looking for is right there, it's called Scissors 2, by the way, and you can go ahead and select it, if you want to, at this point. There are way more shapes than this that actually ship with the program, and many of them are really, really great. And so, to get to them, click on this…
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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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