How to Make Triangles With the Pen Tool in Adobe Photoshop : Using Adobe Photoshop. How to make a perfect circle in CS5.1. Photoshop Shapes - Vectors, Paths and Pixels. Written by Steve Patterson. In previous tutorials on drawing shapes in Photoshop, I mentioned that there are three very different kinds of shapes we can draw using Photoshop’s various Shape tools. We can draw vector shapes, we can draw paths, or we can draw pixel-based shapes. In this tutorial, we’ll look more closely at the main differences between vector, path and pixel shapes and why you’d want to choose one over the others. The Shape Tools As we learned in the Photoshop Shapes And Shape Layers Essentials tutorial, Photoshop’s various Shape tools are all nested together in the same spot in the Tools panel.
By default, the Rectangle Tool is the tool that’s visible, but if you click on the tool’s icon and hold your mouse button down, a fly-out menu will appear listing the other Shape tools that are available. Selecting the Ellipse Tool from the Shape tools fly-out menu. The Drawing Modes Near the far left of the Options Bar is a set of three icons. Drawing Shape Layers (Vector Shapes) Photoshop Shapes - Add, Subtract, Intersect and Exclude. Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop Basics tutorial, we’ll learn how we can combine two or more shapes in interesting ways using the Add, Subtract, Intersect and Exclude options that are available to us when drawing Shape Layers in Photoshop!
We looked at these options briefly in the Vectors, Paths and Pixels tutorial, but we’ll cover them in more detail here. This tutorial assumes you already have a solid understanding of how to draw vector shapes, which you can learn all about in the first tutorial in this series – Photoshop Shapes and Shape Layers Essentials. I’ve gone ahead and created a new Photoshop document, with white as my background color, and I’ve used the Ellipse Tool to draw a single circular shape (I held down my Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) key as I was dragging out the shape to force it into a perfect circle): A circular shape drawn with the Ellipse Tool. The Layers panel showing the Shape layer sitting above the Background layer.
Adding a second shape to the document.