From the course: No Drawing Necessary: Custom Shapes in Photoshop
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Introducing the Shapes panel
From the course: No Drawing Necessary: Custom Shapes in Photoshop
Introducing the Shapes panel
- [Instructor] All right, I'm going to start off with a look at the shapes panel, which is available inside the most recent version of Photoshop. And so you want to go up to the Window menu and choose the Shapes command in order to bring up the shapes panel, which was introduced, by the way, in Photoshop 2020. Now, I'm going to make this panel much larger by dragging its bottom-left corner right here. And you may be seeing small thumbnails as I am right now, or you could switch to large thumbnails if you want a bigger view. Now, exactly what thumbnails you're going to see depends on how long you've been working inside Photoshop. So if you've been using the program for the last few years and you haven't reset your preferences, you'll probably see some loose shapes up here, which are the default vector-based shapes from the old days, along with these four folders here, which were introduced once again, inside Photoshop 2020.…
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