Photoshop - Custom shapes tutorial (Part 1 of 4)

With Custom Shapes in Adobe Photoshop you can do much more with vector graphics. This is the first in a 4 part series of how to create and use custom shapes. After viewing these videos you will see how you can make cool graphics and watermark your photos

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Photoshop
• Custom
• shapes
• watermark
• photographs
• logos
• on
• Adobe
• Color
• Lab

[Lyss7280]

THANK YOU! This is the one video that actually helped me successfully create a logo/custom shape after hours of searching! My only question... Is there anyway to get it to always be the same colors ? I created a multicolored logo and now its not showing.... any help would be GREATLY appreciated! Thank you!  :) ~ Alyssa ~

[hhcolorlab]

@Lyss7280 Custom shapes cannot store colors - if you look in the next video I show how to use layer styles to create and apply different looks to your custom shape.

If you have two areas that need specific colors, the best option is to create two custom shapes, one fore each area, then apply a different layer style to each.

Hope that helps.

Bentley

[joreyaa]

great way....i did it...was easy really .....can i do custom shape with apicture ?

thank you alot :)

[hhcolorlab]

@joreyaa not really. custom shapes are mostly done from vector objects and a picture is not a vector object.

[hhcolorlab]

@joreyaa not really. custom shapes are mostly done from vector objects and a picture is not a vector object.

[royalconcrete1]

You mentioned the three diffrent options at the top, make a shape, make a path and another one. Could you expound on the make the shape a path, and load all sorts of selections.  I find that is what I need .

[hhcolorlab]

@royalconcrete1 I believe the answer to your question is in video 2 of this series:

[2006LJRubicon]

Thanks for the Video and time you put in the video! Could you answer a question for me? I want to create a custom shape, the part i am having trouble with is filling the shape with text. I would like the text to fill in the shape.

[3mrecords]

HOW DID YOU DO THE & IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR LOGO?

[blbabygirl]

Very helpful video. Thank you! :)

[egyptianweb]

thank you for good video

[ahsc2008]

You da Man!

[NaomiChambers]

This tutorial was great! I spent the last hour trying to figure out how to save my custom shapes. You made it so easy for me! Thank you!!!

[TheMacManiaCom]

great information, thank you

[davidknag]

lol ty

[royalconcrete1]

I'M BACK!!! I needed your tut again!!  Thanks sooo much for these.