download custom shape tool photoshop cs6

Move around the edge and continue clicking to add points like in the second picture (Do not click and drag as it complicates things quite a bit.) NOTE: My color is set to white purely for visibility in this step in the tutorial.Click once on the outside edge of the background image as shown in the first picture. This entire process is essentially tracing our background image in order to get a shape that we can save. Now with your settings from the previous step in place we can begin drawing the image. Note: For any of the pictures if something is too small to read you can click on the lowercase i in the upper left hand corner of the image to get more options for viewing sizes. In total this process should take around 1 hour depending on the complexity of the image and your skill level. Desired picture/shape saved on computer and/or access to the internet in order to obtain one.Photoshop installed on the computer you are using (I am using Adobe Photoshop CS5 for PC.).However if you have at least a small amount of exposure to Photoshop then the process is quite a bit easier. Since these instructions tell exactly where and what buttons to use for each step no prior Photoshop knowledge is necessarily required. This Instructable is targeted towards anyone with a basic knowledge of computers. My drive to learn this skill came from the sheer annoying repetitiveness of drawing an entire shape that I use over and over again in Photoshop projects. The second picture shows what the finished product in the menu looks like saved and ready to be used on projects.

The picture above shows where our finished product will end up. Some of the shapes that come with the Photoshop software include arrows, hearts, stars and other basic shapes. For those unfamiliar with the custom shape tool, it allows you to insert a shape in a cookie cutter fashion into your document. In this Instructable I will be showing you how to create and save your own usable custom shapes for use in Photoshop.

Download custom shape tool photoshop cs6