From the course: Photoshop 2021 Essential Training: The Basics
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Modifying, combining, and saving custom shapes - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2021 Essential Training: The Basics
Modifying, combining, and saving custom shapes
- [Instructor] In the next few minutes we're going to discover how easy it is to change the attributes of a shape using the preset panels as well as combine multiple shapes onto a single layer so that the shapes can interact with one another then we'll create our own custom shape. So I want to start by creating a new document. I'll make it the default Photoshop size and click create and then use Command + 1 on Mac, Control + 1 on Windows to zoom in. With the custom shape tool selected, let's make sure that we're starting at the same place. So I'll right click and choose reset the tool. Then on the shapes panel I'm going to do a search for a heart shape and I'm going to scroll down into the legacy default shapes which I loaded in the last video by using the fly out menu and choosing legacy shapes and more. I'm going to drag and drop the heart shape on the left side of the image, reposition it, make it a little smaller…
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