From the course: No Drawing Necessary: Custom Shapes in Photoshop
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Pasting multiple custom shapes
From the course: No Drawing Necessary: Custom Shapes in Photoshop
Pasting multiple custom shapes
- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to copy multiple custom path outlines in Photoshop and then paste them into Illustrator. So, first of all, all of your custom shapes have to be on a single shape layer just as they were at the end of the first chapter. Then you want to switch to the black arrow tool, the one that Photoshop calls the path selection tool even though it has a keyboard shortcut of A for arrow. Now, assuming that the shape layer is active here inside the layers panel, you may see all of the anchor points which would demonstrate that the paths are selected. In my case, I'm not seeing any anchor points. So, I need to partially marquee through these three objects, like so in order to draw a rectangular marquee, as you're seeing here and then when I release, I will go ahead and select all three of those custom path outlines at which point, I'll go up to the edit menu and choose the copy command…
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