Photoshop Zone

The Custom Shape Tool You’ll find the Custom Shape Tool nested in with Photoshop’s other Shape tools in the same spot in the Tools panel. By default, the Rectangle Tool is the tool that’s displayed, but if you click on it and hold your mouse button down, a fly-out menu will appear listing the other tools that are available in that spot. The Custom Shape Tool is at the bottom of the list: Click and hold on the Rectangle Tool, then select the Custom Shape Tool from the fly-out menu. If you already have one of the other Shape tools selected, you can quickly grab the Custom Shape Tool from the Options Bar. You’ll see a series of six icons, each representing a different Shape tool. The Custom Shape Tool is the last icon on the right (it’s the icon that looks like a blob): If another Shape tool is already active, the Custom Shape Tool can be selected from the Options Bar. Choosing A Custom Shape Once we have the Custom Shape Tool selected, we need to choose the shape ...

The Shape Tools Photoshop gives us six Shape tools to choose from – the Rectangle Tool, the Rounded Rectangle Tool, the Ellipse Tool, the Polygon Tool, the Line Tool, and the Custom Shape Tool, and they’re all nested together in the same spot in the Tools panel. By default, the Rectangle Tool is the one that’s visible in the Tools panel, but if we click on the tool’s icon and hold our mouse button down for a second or two, a fly-out menu appears showing us the other Shape tools we can choose from: All six Shape tools are located in the same spot in the Tools panel. Once you have a Shape tool selected, if you need to switch to a different one, there’s no need to go back to the Tools panel (although you can if you want to) because Photoshop gives us access to all of the Shape tools directly from the Options Bar along the top of the screen. For example, I’ll select the Rectangle Tool from the Tools panel: Selecting the Rectangle Tool. With the Rectangle Tool select...