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Drawing a custom shape layer

Drawing a custom shape layer - Photoshop Tutorial

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Drawing a custom shape layer

I've saved my progress as Gratuitous effects.psd, so-called because I may have gone a little bit overboard where the layer effects are concerned, but I like the way the result looks. Anyway, I'm going to go ahead and zoom out a little bit here, and in this exercise, we're going to talk about that I that we saw a moment ago. I'm going to go ahead and collapse my fx list associated with 365 here inside the Layers panel, scroll down and turn on that info layer right there, and we have what is ultimately a scalable vector-based shape layer here inside of Photoshop, so I'm going to click on that layer to make it active. And then just so I could show you how very scalable it is, because check this out: if I zoom in on it, at 100%, it looks really great, but if I zoom in past to 100%, this goes for my vector-based shape layers and live editable text inside of Photoshop. Notice at 200% I'm starting to see bigger pixels, and I'll just keep zooming in, let's say to 500% right here, and you can…

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