How to create custom shapes in photoshop

Drawing Vector Shapes In Photoshop

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, but if we click and hold on the tool's icon, a fly-out menu appears showing us the other tools we can choose from:

Clicking and holding on the Rectangle Tool icon reveals the other shape tools hiding behind it.

I'll start by selecting the first one in the list, the Rectangle Tool:

Selecting the Rectangle Tool.

Shapes, Pixels Or Paths

Before we draw any shapes, we first need to tell Photoshop which kind of shape we want to draw.

That's because Photoshop actually lets us draw three very different kinds of shapes. We can draw vector shapes, paths, or pixel shapes. We'll look more closely at the differences between the three in other tutorials, but a

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