Every year comes the day of love and friendship, or there are simply times when you want to give them gifts. to those loved ones who fill the world with happiness.
But it is not enough to say “I love you” or a “Thank you”, nor with buying those cards that they sell in stores with Tweety and hearts made with paint in the decade of the 2000, but what matters is to give them a more personal touch. detail, although it may not be for personal reasons, but you simply want to give beauty to a design, Y Photoshop It's the right tool for jobs like this.
And who does not know the design software? Photoshop is to design what pizzas are for 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 analyzing how to create the shapes, it would be good to give some basic notions of what can be created.
How can I access Photoshop's default shapes?
Photoshop 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, Everything that may be useful to you can be saved in this tool, you just have to draw it, save it and you will have it at the click of a button.
Photoshop has a variety of default shapes in its installation, but You can expand it and you will have shapes made by other people or by yourself. that will be very useful to you.
To draw a new custom shape
To draw new custom shapes you must follow the following steps:
- you will look for the shape tool and you will click, holding down the 'shape' icon, this will show you the different options of the tool with triangles, ellipses, polygons, lines, among others. Select the tool to draw the shape you want.
- then in the options bar of the shape tool we define the options among them you have the Way (shape, stroke and pixels), the Stuffed, the carrera (color, width and stroke type of the shape), the Any y Al (shape width and height), plot operations (definition of shapes), frame alignment (define stacking order) and finally the additional shape and design options.
- In this step, you will click and drag the canvas and with the shape tool selected create a new shape layer, press the key Change and hold it down and draw the proportional shapes, 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 early Free transformation.
- You will access ‘shape properties’ and to the 'properties panel’ in order to edit shape properties, with transformation and rounding controls, with that you will adjust the appearance of the shape.
Finally, when you have finished your form, open a popup dialog ‘create form’ and may modify shape parameters.
What properties of the shape can I edit?
With the shape properties and using the fillet and transform controls on the canvas adjust the appearance of the shape; The 'canvas transform controls’ they work on the keyboard, by holding down the Alt key you can modify the radius of a single vertex or modify them all at once.
Stuffed
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 in the toolbar and it will give you the option to 'fill', on In the properties panel you will define the option of the type of filling.
Finally, In the pop-up menu you will choose the option 'fill’ and the Uniform color and the degraded.
Carrera
You will go to the layers panel and select the layer you want to trace, cwith the shape tool On the toolbar, will select 'trace’ and in the properties panel you will click on the option 'type of trace'.
Then you will go to the pop-up menu and select the stroke option 'uniform color, gradient or pattern’ Y you will have all the options to choose the best for your new form.
Color
When you've already selected the layer and fill or shape options, will go to pop-up menu and you will get the solid color option, 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 should do is select the layer in which you want the gradient, after setting the fill or stroke type, 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 set the gradient options as angle, if you want to invert the colors, the style, scale and align to layer to calculate gradient fill.
How to save a new shape or custom shape?
By creating new shapes with the pencil and defining them as custom shapes, it's time to go to “Custom shapes“on the” tabrectangle shape tool“and with the right button you select the other tool, now you will only see one object, an arrow, but on the top bar there is a selection of different shapes available, including those created with the ballpoint pen.
The tool offers many preset shapes, among them are a heart, different types of arrows and you can also edit the forms already created, of course it is something more complicated, but with the command “Ctrl + T” it is possible to edit certain simple values of the forms, something useful to give a good style to the images and the shapes that are created.
Photoshop has an unlimited scope that always allows you to keep innovating and creating new ways to convey surprising and engaging messages, and thanks to the synergies between the tools the capabilities, as always, they are almost unlimited.
Photoshop Formas
Design software contains many options, so there are too many ways to create images that reference any subject, an example can be Christmas cards, and that is why it is good to understand that, baby Photoshop, there are many pretty useful brushes that can help create custom shapes, but it is also very striking that there is a way to create the shapes in addition to the preset brushes, with a tool.
Evidently, there are much easier options to create shapes, it is even possible to use images already created on the internet, or photos taken and edit them along with some other tools. to design a kind of “collage” and give it the romantic touch you are looking for, but you have to be honest, it is better to create it yourself, and it is possible, although the shapes already created 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 you translate the most interesting ideas into the program., obviously, there are so many options that you may need help understanding the wide selection of tools on the toolbar.
But the tool that works to create shapes in Photoshop it's a call “ballpoint”, that looks like the tip of an old writing pen, and although the idea of the pen is simple, the execution is somewhat complicated for those who start, but that doesn't stop the ideas, with the pen new shapes can be created and learning how to use it can be a walk in the park.
Brushes and shapes
By using the ballpoint pen you can create any shapes you want, being such a versatile tool it is not surprising that there is even an option to create shapes, since the pen tool allows the create strokes and shapes with straight and curved lines with anchor points, and when you have created the desired shape you can use the option “define custom shape” right click. With the pen there are an almost unlimited number of shapes that can be created.
