From the course: No Drawing Necessary: Custom Shapes in Photoshop
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Combining custom shapes
From the course: No Drawing Necessary: Custom Shapes in Photoshop
Combining custom shapes
- [Instructor] All right now, notice over here in the layers panel that we have two vector base shape layers and we know they're vectors because of this little anchor point icon in the bottom right corner of each of the thumbnails and so let's say what I really want to do is combine both of these vectors onto a single layer. In that case, you want to switch to your path selection tool, the one that most folks call the black arrow and then you want to make sure one of your shape layers is selected here inside the layers panel. In my case, it's the giraffe layer and then just go ahead and click inside that giraffe to select it. Then go up to the edit menu and choose the cut command or you've got that universal keyboard shortcut of control+X here on a PC or command+X on the Mac and that will not only cut the giraffe but that deletes its layer as as well. So, as you can see here, we no longer have a giraffe layer…
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