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No Drawing Necessary: Custom Shapes in Photoshop

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Learn how to communicate visual concepts without drawing so much as a stick figure. Start saving time with Photoshop, which ships with hundreds of pre-drawn custom shapes.

Syllabus

How Not to Draw: Introduction
  • Art without drawing
1. Photoshop Vector Shapes
  • Introducing the Shapes panel
  • Using the Custom Shape tool
  • Combining custom shapes
  • Defining your own custom shape
  • Loading several hundred custom shapes
2. Moving Shapes into Illustrator
  • Copying and pasting a custom shape
  • Troubleshooting a dimmed Paste command
  • Pasting multiple custom shapes
3. Simplifying Custom Shapes
  • Using the Simplify command
  • Advanced simplification
  • Reshaping a custom path outline
4. Create Your Own with Image Trace
  • Preparing a photographic image
  • Placing and tracing the image
  • Expanding an image tracing
  • Adding your custom shape to a piece of art
Class Dismissed
  • Now away with you!

Taught by

Deke McClelland

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