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                           Latest Photoshop Basics tutorials Find the Missing Gradients, Patterns and Shapes in Photoshop Photoshop’s classic gradients, patterns and shapes from previous versions, and most of the new patterns and shapes, are hidden by default. Here’s where to find them in Photoshop 2021! How to Crop Images in Photoshop with the Crop Tool Learn how to crop images, how to straighten images, and how to crop an image non-destructively using the Crop Tool in Photoshop! How to Keep Photoshop Always Up to Date Not sure if you’re running the latest version of Photoshop? Learn how easy it is to keep Photoshop up to date using the Adobe Creative Cloud app! How to Crop Images in a Circle Shape with Photoshop Tired of cropping your images as rectangles and squares? Learn how to easily crop an image into a circle with Photoshop! Photoshop Tools and Toolbar Overview Learn all about Photoshop’s tools and the toolbar...

The Shape Tools As we learned in the Photoshop Shapes And Shape Layers Essentials tutorial, Photoshop’s various Shape tools are all nested together in the same spot in the Tools panel. By default, the Rectangle Tool is the tool that’s visible, but if you click on the tool’s icon and hold your mouse button down, a fly-out menu will appear listing the other Shape tools that are available. I’ll choose the Ellipse Tool from the list, but everything we’re about to learn applies to all of the Shape tools, not just the Ellipse Tool: Selecting the Ellipse Tool from the Shape tools fly-out menu. The Drawing Modes Once we’ve chosen a Shape tool, we need to tell Photoshop which type of shape – vector, path or pixels – we want to draw, and we do that using the drawing mode options in the Options Bar along the top of the screen. Near the far left of the Options Bar is a set of three icons. Each icon represents one of the three types of shapes we can draw. The first icon (the...