Every year the day of love and friendship comes, or there are simply times when you want to give gifts to those you love who fill the world with happiness.
But it is not enough to say “I love you” or a “thank you”, nor to buy those cards that are sold in stores with Tweety Bird and hearts made with paint in the 2000s, but what matters is to give them a more personal detail, although it is possible that it is not for personal reasons, if not simply you want to give beauty to a design, and Photoshop is the indicated tool for works like this.
And who does not know design software? Photoshop is to design what pizzas are to the culinary world, the best known and considered by many to be the best there is, so it is not surprising that the application has many useful tools and functions that help create spectacular designs. Before discussing how to create the shapes, it would be good to give some basic notions of what can be created.
How can I access the default Photoshop shapes
Photoshop’s default shapes or shapes they will allow you to work easily and with all kinds of shapes and graphic elements that can help you a lot for your design, this tool may be the most important and the one you use the most in this program.
This will not only allow you to work faster on your designs, but also will allow you to expand the models you can use, You can save everything that may be useful to you in this tool, you just have to draw it, save it and you will have it within the reach of a click.
Photoshop comes with a variety of default shapes in its installation, but you can enlarge it and you will have forms made by other people or by yourself which will be very useful to you.
To Draw a New Custom Shape
To draw new custom figures you must follow these steps:
- you will look for the shape tool and you will click, keeping the ‘shape’ icon pressed, this will be so that the different options of the tool appear with triangles, ellipses, polygons, lines, among others. Select the tool to draw the shape you want.
- then in the shape tool options bar we define the options among them you have the Mode (shape, stroke and pixels), the Filling, the streak (color, width and stroke type of the shape), the An and Al (width and height of the shape), plotting operations (shape definition), plot alignment (define stacking order) and finally the additional shape and path options.
- In this step you will click and drag the canvas and with the shape tool selected you will create a new shape layer, press the key shift and hold it down and draw the shapes proportionally, with the shape layer and the tool move, you will move the shape and place it on the canvas, if you want transform or rotate the shape selected Edit later Free transformation.
- You will access the ‘shape properties’ and the ‘properties’ panel to edit shape propertieswith the transform and round controls, with that you will adjust the appearance of the shape.
Finally when you have finished your form open a pop-up dialog box ‘create form’ and you will be able to modify the parameters of the form.
What shape properties can I edit?
With the shape properties and using the fill and transform controls on the canvas will adjust the appearance of the shape; On the keyboard the ‘canvas transformation’ controls work, by holding down the Alt key you can modify the radius of a single vertex or modify them all at once.
Filling
You must select in the ‘layers’ panel and select the layer you want to fill, then you will select the shape tool by pressing U from the toolbar and it will give you the option to ‘fill’, in the properties panel you will define the fill type option.
Finally in the pop-up menu you will choose the ‘fill’ option and the Uniform color and the degraded.
Streak
You will go to the layers panel and select the layer you want to trace, con the shape tool From the toolbar you will select ‘trace’ and in the properties panel you will click on the ‘trace type’ option.
Then you will go to the pop-up menu and select the stroke option ‘solid color, gradient or pattern’ and you will have all the options to choose the best for your new form.
Color
When you have selected the layer and the fill or shape options, you will go to the pop-up menu and you will get the option of uniform color, With this option you will fill or trace the layer with the foreground color. if you want to choose a different color use the color picker or presets.
Degraded
To use the gradient option, the first thing you must do is select the layer in which you want the gradient, after establishing the type of fill or stroke, the pop-up menu will appear and you will have the gradient option where you can choose a gradient preset or a new one.
To make a new gradient click on the gradient and it will show the ‘gradient editor’ dialog and will set the gradient options like the angle, if you want to invert the colors, style, scale and align with layer to calculate the gradient fill.
How to save a new custom figure or shape?
When creating new shapes with the pen and defining them as custom shapes, it is time to go to the “Custom Shapes” tool in the “rectangle shape tool” tab and with the right click select the other tool, now only one object will be seen, an arrow, but on the top bar there is a selection of different shapes available, including those created with the pen.
The tool offers many preset shapes, among them are a heart, different types of arrows and you can also edit the already created shapes, of course it is somewhat more complicated, but with the command “Ctrl+T” it is possible to edit certain simple values of the shapes , something useful to give a good style to the images and the forms that are created.
Photoshop has an unlimited scope that always allows you to keep innovating and creating new ways to deliver amazing and engaging messages, and thanks to the synergies between the tools the capabilities, as always, are nearly limitless.
Photoshop shapes
Design software contains many options, so there are too many ways to create images that allude to any theme, an example can be Christmas cards, and for this reason it is good to understand that, with Photoshop, there are many quite useful brushes which can help you create custom shapes, but it’s also quite remarkable that there is a way to create the shapes in addition to the preset brushes, with a tool.
Obviously, there are much simpler options to create forms, it is even possible to use images already created on the internet, or photos taken and edit them together with some other tools to design a kind of “collage” and give it the romantic touch that is sought, but you have to be honest, it is better to create it yourself, and it is possible, even if the already created forms are not convincing enough for the creator of the image.
The pen, stronger than the sword
There are several options on the toolbar that can help bring the coolest ideas to the program, obviously there are so many options that help may be needed to understand the vast selection of tools on the bar.
But the tool that works for creating shapes in Photoshop is one called “Pen”, which looks like the tip of an old pen for writing, and although the idea of the pen is simple, the execution is somewhat complicated for those who they start, but that does not stop the ideas, with the pen new forms can be created and learning how to use it can be a walk in the park.
brushes and shapes
When using the pen, shapes can be created as desired, being such a versatile tool, it is not surprising that there is even an option to create shapes, since the pen tool allows you to create strokes and shapes with straight lines and curves with points of interest. anchor, and when you have created the desired shape you can use the option “define custom shape” with the right click. With the pen there is an almost unlimited amount of shapes that can be created.
