From the course: No Drawing Necessary: Custom Shapes in Photoshop
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Defining your own custom shape
From the course: No Drawing Necessary: Custom Shapes in Photoshop
Defining your own custom shape
- [Instructor] All right, now I'll show you how to create your own custom shape. And so I'll go ahead and switch to the Pen Tool, which you can get by pressing the P key. And I'll just draw something simple, like a custom star. So notice that I'm clicking with the Pen Tool in order to create corner points. If you see an advertisement that wants to switch you to the Curvature Tool, just go ahead and dismiss it, and that way you can create your own custom star. Now, if you decide that you want to move some of the anchor points around, all you have to do is press and hold the ctrl key or the cmd key on the Mac in order to temporarily access the White Arrow Tool, the one that allows you to select individual anchor points and drag them around like so. So I'll just go ahead and drag a few of these guys to different positions in order to come up with what is potentially a more desirable effect. All right, now, notice up here in the…
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