From the course: No Drawing Necessary: Custom Shapes in Photoshop

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Adding your custom shape to a piece of art

Adding your custom shape to a piece of art

From the course: No Drawing Necessary: Custom Shapes in Photoshop

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Adding your custom shape to a piece of art

- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you at least one way to add an elaborate custom shape to a piece of vector-based artwork here inside Illustrator, and so I'll start off by pressing ctrl + 0 or cmd + 0 on the Mac in order to fit the art board on screen, and then I'll click on the tree to select it. And I'll go up to the edit menu and choose the copy command. Or you've got the keyboard shortcut of ctrl + C or cmd + C on the Mac. And then I'll switch over to the version of the artwork that contains those three trees that ship as custom shapes along with Photoshop. And armed with my black arrow tool, I'll go ahead and click on this rectangular gradient toward the bottom of the document. Next, I'll go up to the edit menu and I'll choose paste in back, or you can press ctrl + B or cmd + B on the Mac, and that's because I want to place that tree in back of that gradient so that the trunk appears to emerge from the…

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