In this lesson, we are going to learn how to create shapes in Photoshop. So just go 2 2
ahead and create a new lesson and go ahead and call the shapes, make sure our 3 3
background is white that's fine 1000 x 1000 pixels, we just gotta square cool. 4 4
So creating shapes in Photoshop is actually relatively easy. We have a shape tool 5 5
down here and if we click and hold the shape tool down here, we can do different 6 6
options rectangle, rounded rectangle ellipse, which is four circles polygon 7 7
line tool or a custom shape tool. So say we just take our rectangle before we 8 8
create the shape, let's choose the options. We want for the shape we have 9 9
our fail so this is the color of the inside of the shape, so let's pick that 10 10
purple it's kinda cool color. The stroke this is the border around the shape will 11 11
leave that at zero points right here, so it won't show up and the color it 12 12
doesn't really matter since it's at zero points. And then here is the stroke 13 13
option will show you that in just a second. 14 14
Now if I click and drag on my project, I start getting this rectangular shape if 15 15
I hold shift down, it becomes a perfect square, if I hold option down it creates 16 16
a square from the point where I clicked. I'm just going to create a normal 17 17
rectangle just like so and when I let go, you see that this rectangular shape is created. 18 18
I have a new layer over here in our layer panel, this property box open up I 19 19
don't really need that open right now I have the properties I want to edit up 20 20
there. And then we can take are just regular selection tool and move this 21 21
around, we can go in, choose the bounding box edge and reshape this, we can rotate 22 22
it by hovering your mouse around the corner of an edge and rotating it, say we 23 23
want more of a diamond looking feature you can do so like that. 24 24
Bring this, in just create whatever kind of shape you want really. When you are 25 25
done moving around press return on your keyboard to lock it in place and you'll 26 26
see what happens is when we select the shape, we don't get those 27 27
options up here for the color and the stroke, we gotta go back to our shape 28 28
tool right here so that we can select the stroke and the fill color. So if we 29 29
want to add a stroke, 30 30
let's just choose the color, let's just shoot the black and then increase the 31 31
points from 0 to something a lot bigger, so we can see it. We want to make this 32 32
stroke a dash line, we can click dash line and if we want more options 33 33
let's click those more options and see what it looks like. We can choose the 34 34
alignment of the stroke to be the inside of the shape or maybe we want it to be 35 35
the outside or on the center ,so actually on the line. We can also choose the 36 36
number and the gap between the dashes so say we choose five for the dashes that's 37 37
the length of the dash and the gap distance, so say we say one there's a 38 38
small gap or maybe we want it to be five dash with a 5 gap or we could add 39 39
multiple, so five dash five gap and so it's a 5533 5533. We can also change the 40 40
cap of the dash change into a square by changing from a round cap to a butt cap 41 41
so that there are a lot of options for the stroke but I'm actually just going 42 42
to turn that off right there. 43 43
The next thing we can do to edit shape actually is to use what's called a 44 44
Anchor Point tool, so i'm going to use this delete Anchor Point tool. I'm going 45 45
to click on the shape and when I hover over one of the points one of the edges 46 46
or the corners of this shape. I can actually delete it so this is how you 47 47
actually create custom shapes or I can add points, so say I take this add Anchor 48 48
Point tool down here go on the line path, so the edge and click. You can take this 49 49
click right there now to move these I can just click them like so what if i'm 50 50
actually in my move tool my selection tool, I can't click those points to get 51 51
to those points. I can use this direct selection tool down here which is this 52 52
little arrow if i click on the shape it brings up all the anchor points and I can 53 53
move the anchor points around. So that's how you would kind of create a cool 54 54
custom shape using the shape tool. If I go ahead and select another shape tool 55 55
and say bring up the ellipse tool change the color just like so 56 56
whoops I change the color of that shape. I don't want to change that shape have 57 57
to uncheck this rectangle, so let's just click off of the rectangle click down 58 58
here then with the right the circle selected, let's just change the shape 59 59
again choose a blue and create that circle clicking and dragging if we hold 60 60
the shift down it locks it into a perfect circle, if you want more of an 61 61
oval shape don't hold the ship down but I want a perfect circle for this one. 62 62
So now with my move tool selected I can move this around, I can put it beneath my 63 63
other layer, create some cool funky shapes if I want. I'm going to turn this 64 64
off these two layers, so that I have a blank canvas and then i'm going to go 65 65
down and choose my polygon tool. The polygon tool is cool because you can 66 66
create any shape that you want with no any number of sides, so say we want a 67 67
triangle you see this side right here, change the sides 23 change your color to 68 68
whatever you want and then click and drag and you have a triangle come out of 69 69
that shape. So that's a polygon and if we go back and choose this polygon tool 70 70
again and choose five sides, we can create a pentagon pretty cool huh. 71 71
So that's the quick way to create shapes in Photoshop, it's the way that I create 72 72
shapes ninety-nine percent of the time. In the next lesson, i'm going to show you 73 73
how do you create your own custom shapes with the pen tool. Thanks for watching.