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 ...

Final Image Preview Take a look at the image we’ll be creating. Want access to the full PSD files and downloadable copies of every tutorial, including this one? Join Psd Plus for just $19/month. You can view the final image preview below. Here’s what we’ll achieve by the end of these two parts. For now though, we’re going to try and get this far. Step 1 The first program on today’s list is Illustrator. Start it up, create a new web document with standard settings and type in your word using this free font . Step 2 As you can see when zooming in, the font has a lot of harsh edges because it’s free, and not meant to be used for display purposes. We want a clean, few-endpoints font that won’t reveal any bugs in Cinema 4D. So turn down the Opacity of the text, and create a new layer. Lock the previous layer and start to trace your own version of the first letter. Step 3 Try to keep the lines as smooth and natural as possible. You may choose to follow the ed...