How To _TOP_ Download Custom Shape Tool In Photoshop

You can use on-canvas transform and rounding controls to adjust the appearance of your shape. The keyboard modifiers will work the same way for on-canvas transform controls as they work in Transform tool in Photoshop. You can modify the radius of all corners of your shape at once or hold Alt (Win) or Option (Mac) as you drag to change the radius of a single corner. For triangles, all corners will be modified even if you drag one of them. Easily rotate a shape using the on-canvas rotate handle that appears as you hover over your shape on the canvas.

To view all the custom shapes that come with Photoshop, click the gear icon on the right of the Custom Shape picker in the shape tool options bar. You will see the list of available shapes. Select any custom shape as desired.

How To Download Custom Shape Tool In Photoshop

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If you don't find a desired shape, click the gear icon in the Custom Shape picker panel and select Import Shapes option to import a desired shape from your saved files. You can also create and save a custom shape in your library.

You can easily edit your Custom Shape Tool properties directly from Shape Properties under the Properties panel. You can also use on-canvas Transform controls to transform a custom shape while keeping intact its shape properties.

You also have the flexibility of setting Custom Shape Tool preset directly from the Shapes Windows panel. When you select a custom shape from Windows > Shape panel, this preset will get updated in the Custom Shape Tool > Custom Shape picker as well.

In the previous tutorial, How To Draw Vector Shapes In Photoshop CS6, we learned how to use the five basic shape tools in Photoshop (the Rectangle Tool, the Rounded Rectangle Tool, the Ellipse Tool, the Polygon Tool, and the Line Tool) to add simple geometric shapes like rectangles, squares and circles, as well as stars, starbursts and direction arrows, to our documents.

Adobe calls these more complex shapes custom shapes, and we draw them using the Custom Shape Tool. The only problem is that, by default, only a handful of these custom shapes are available to us. Most of them are hidden. So in this tutorial, we'll learn everything we need to know about drawing shapes with the Custom Shape Tool, including how to access every custom shape that Photoshop has to offer!

The Custom Shape Tool is nested in with Photoshop's other shape tools in the Tools panel. To select it, click and hold on the icon for whichever shape tool is currently visible (which will either be the Rectangle Tool (the default) or whichever shape tool you used last). When you click and hold on the icon, a fly-out menu appears showing the other shape tools that are available. Select the Custom Shape Tool from the bottom of the list:

Next, we need to tell Photoshop which custom shape we want to draw, and we do that by clicking on the shape thumbnail in the Options Bar. The thumbnail shows us the shape that's currently selected:

In the bottom half of the menu that appears, you'll see a list of all the custom shape sets that Adobe includes with Photoshop. The shapes that are displayed initially are the default set, but looking through the list, we see that we have lots of other interesting sets, like Animals, Music, Nature, and so on. To load one of these sets, simply choose it from the list.

The only problem is that unless you've been using Photoshop for a while (and spent much of that time working with custom shapes), it's hard to know which shapes you'll find in each set. So, rather than choosing the sets individually, what I'd recommend is selecting All at the top of the list, which will load the shapes from every set all at once:

This opens a box that lets us choose from four different ways to fill the custom shape, each represented by one of four icons along the top. Starting from the left, we have the No Color icon, the Solid Color icon, the Gradient icon, and the Pattern icon. We covered the Fill (and Stroke) color options in detail in the previous tutorial (How To Draw Vector Shapes In Photoshop CS6) but I'll cover them again here as a refresher:

Selecting the No Color option on the left will leave your custom shape blank, which may be what you want if you need your shape to contain only a stroke outline. We'll see how to add a stroke in a moment.

The Solid Color option (second from left) lets us fill the custom shape with a single color. Choose a color by clicking on one of the color swatches. Colors you've used recently appear in the Recently Used Colors row above the main swatches:

Finally, choose the Pattern option if you want to fill your custom shape with a pattern. Photoshop doesn't give us many patterns to choose from on its own, but if you've created or downloaded other patterns, you can load them in by clicking on the small gear icon (directly below the Custom Shape icon) and choosing Load Patterns from the menu:

Notice, though, that my heart shape looks a bit distorted. It's wider and shorter than I was expecting. That's because, by default, Photoshop lets us freely draw custom shapes to any size or proportions we like. I'll undo my shape by going up to the Edit menu in the Menu Bar along the top of the screen and choosing Undo Custom Shape Tool. I could also just press Ctrl+Z (Win) / Command+Z (Mac) on my keyboard. This removes the shape from the document:

To draw a custom shape with the correct proportions, begin the same way as before by clicking inside the document to set your starting point, then keeping your mouse button held down and dragging away from the point. As you're dragging, press and hold the Shift key on your keyboard. This will snap the shape to its correct proportions and lock them in place:

This opens the Stroke Options box. At the top, we can switch between having the stroke displayed as a solid line (the default), a dashed line or a dotted line. The Align option lets us choose whether the stroke should appear along the inside edges of the shape, the outside edges or centered along the edges. We can set the Caps option to either Butt, Round or Square, and change the Corners to either Miter, Round or Bevel. Clicking More Options at the bottom will open a more detailed dialog box with additional options for customizing the look of your stroke and for saving your custom settings as a preset:

Just as it does with the geometric shape tools (Rectangle Tool, Ellipse Tool, etc.), Photoshop places each vector shape we draw with the Custom Shape Tool on its own Shape layer. If we look in my Layers panel, we see my heart shape sitting on a Shape layer named "Shape 1":

Fortunately, because Shape layers in Photoshop remain fully editable, there's no need for me to undo and redraw the shape if I needed it to be a different color. As long as I have the Shape layer selected in the Layers panel (and the shape tool still selected from the Tools panel), I can easily go back and change the colors.

And now, both shapes share the same stroke width. You can edit the other stroke options (color, line type, alignment, etc.) as well if needed. As long as you have the correct shape layer selected in the Layers panel, and the shape tool still active, you can make whatever changes you need:

And there we have it! That's how to go beyond circles and squares and add more interesting custom shapes to your layouts using the Custom Shape Tool in Photoshop CS6! Visit our Photoshop Basics section to learn lots more about Photoshop!

I am a subscriber to Photoshop and Lightroom CC and have just noticed (I need to draw a circle) that there is no custom shape tool in the left hand side tool bar; I've always just assumed it was there before. I've checked around and it seems as if it should be there but mine just isn't.

There was one spam video by a guy who put "Define custom shape greyed out" in the description but the video is far from explaining any kind of fix. He just told people how to define custom shapes but I cannot do it because the option is greyed out in Photoshop.

By default, Photoshop has a bunch of free custom shapes: arrows, bulb, heart, envelope, scissors, bubble chat, and some others. They prove to be quite effective. However, as your artworks getting more sophisticated, you may find yourself in need of more than just that basic range.

Photoshop shapes are vector-based objects. Therefore, the first and foremost advantage of using free custom shapes lies in their scalability. Since they are described using mathematical definitions, they can be easily enlarged and reduced in size without distortion and loss in quality. In the world where you have to deal with all sorts of screens, and the artwork should look equally good on a tiny cell phone and large TV monitor, it is a crucial quality.

You can easily change the size, color, orientation as well as scale, rotate, flip, skew, and distort the custom shape in Photoshop at any time. All the manipulations are done through basic functionality.

Before installing new free custom shapes in Photoshop, make sure that they are available in a file with .CSH extension. If you have a ZIP package, then unzip it and get the Photoshop shapes in the correct format.

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