From the course: No Drawing Necessary: Custom Shapes in Photoshop
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Using the Custom Shape tool
From the course: No Drawing Necessary: Custom Shapes in Photoshop
Using the Custom Shape tool
- [Instructor] Now I'll show you how to draw a custom shape using the custom shape tool, and so you want to drop down to the bottom of the toolbox and bring up the shape tool flyout menu and then choose the custom shape tool from the bottom of the list. Now go up to the horizontal options bar up here at the top of the screen and click on whatever shape you see in order to see this custom shape tool flyout menu, which you can scale as you like. And so I'm going to go ahead and twirl open my wild animals folder, and I'll select the giraffe. And then I'll go ahead and press the enter key or the return key on the Mac to dismiss that popup panel. And now I'll just go ahead and drag with the tool. Now, as things stand now, you're going to stretch the shape as you drag. If you want to draw the shape proportionally, then press and hold the shift key like so, and I just went ahead and invoked an auto scroll, which is unfortunate,…
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