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Hello friends welcome to tutorials point
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In this video we are going to learn custom shapes in Adobe Photoshop
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Hello friends in this video we are going to learn how to create a custom shape on your canvas
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and use the shape properties to interact with your shapes. So guys, Photoshop comes with the ability to draw and edit vector shapes easily
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easily. You can also convert your vector shape to a raster or a pixel base shape
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So friends, you can create your custom shape from the toolbar from here. You can see a custom
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shape tool or you can also use a shortcut U for toggle different different shapes. So I'm
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just selecting a custom shape tool. Leave with this tool you can create a different different
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shapes. So guys, first we are going to learn how to create a custom shape. So for that I'm
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creating one new canvas I'm just typing custom shape and just press okay so I have
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now new canvas now to view all the custom shape that comes with the Photoshop
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click the gear icon on the top right of the custom shape picker in the shape tool
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option bar you can see here okay just click here and you can see a different
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different custom shape over here which are already created like this is a wild ships here you can can see different different boats here you can see different flowers as well as you can see a different
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different shapes like 2019 shape where we can see some trees as well as a lot of shapes by
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default you provided in Adobe Photoshop for now I'm just selecting one of this animal and
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show you how you create this shape so I'm just selecting this camel okay
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And now just drag camel over here and as you can see camel is created
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For now I am just decreased the stroke. And just change the color of the fill which should be black
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So as you can see our camel shape is created. So it is very easy
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You can create a different different custom shape using a custom shape tool
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Now friends if you don't find a desire. shape then go to shape and here you can see a geared icon in the custom shape
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picker panel and select the import shapes okay this option to import a desired
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shape from your saved file you can also create and save a custom shape in your
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library now friends these shape thumbnails are too small and it hard to identify
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which shape you want to select so to enlarge this box just see this border and
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and drag this So you can enlarge this box and you can easily check which shapes are you are going to use So like that you can check all the shapes These all shapes are by default given by the Adobe Photoshop
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Okay. Now here you need to note one thing. You can access the custom shape properties only for the shape drawn using the custom shape tool
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And not when a path has been converted to a shape. So guys first I'm show you how to show you how to show
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shave a shape or a path as a custom shape you can create your own shape and make that
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shape as a custom shape so let's see how you can create a custom shape by your own
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so for that I'm just deleting this camel okay and unlocking this background
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now guys we are going to create a star and then we can convert that star in our
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custom shape we are just save that star as a shape and we are just save that star as a shape and
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we can use it as a custom shape. So for that we are going to create a polygon tool to creating
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a star. So just select a polygon tool or you can also use a shortcut U to toggle a different
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different shape. So just select the polygon tool. And in the property you can see a phi
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five for creating a star. Okay, you can select a different slide as your requirement. I am creating
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a star so I selecting a five slides Now I creating one star like this okay just put it on a center okay decreasing a stroke
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two is good so this shape I created using a custom shape tool so guys next step is to go to edit
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and here you can see a defined custom shape so just click here and now you can give a name of
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your shape I'm just giving Rushi star, okay and just press okay
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So guys our custom shape is saved. Now we are need to select a custom shape tool and from here you can see your saved shape
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So guys like this you can create your own custom shape and you can save to your library
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Now friends how to accessing a legacy custom shapes. If you have used a legacy custom shapes from older version of your Photoshop and would like to
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add them to your current version so for that you need to go to Windows and here you can
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select a shapes now in the top right corner of the shapes panel click here and you
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can select let's see custom shapes and more and you can add your old custom
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shapes to your current Adobe Photoshop version so guys that's all for the custom
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shapes see you in the next video thank you so much