I'll increase the thickness to 2 px just to make the path easier to see as we go through this tutorial. To place an actual outline or border around the shape, you need to add a stroke. And these path options under the Gear icon exist only to make the path outline easier to see while working in Photoshop. Paths exist only in Photoshop and do not appear when you print your work or when you save it as a JPEG, PNG or other file format. But don't confuse a path outline with a stroke. The Gear iconĬlicking the Gear icon in the Options Bar opens two different sets of options.įirst are the Path Options where you can change the Thickness or Color of the path outline around the shape. From the Home Screen, click the Create New button: You can follow along with me by creating a new Photoshop document.
To follow along, you'll need Photoshop 2021.ĭownload this tutorial as a print-ready PDF! Setting up the document And with rectangles, triangles and polygon shapes, the On-Canvas Controls make it easy to adjust the roundness of the corners just by dragging within the shape itself.
These controls let you adjust the size and rotation of a shape without needing to open the Free Transform command. And 2021 introduces a new Triangle Tool so we no longer need to use the Polygon Tool to draw simple triangles.īut perhaps the biggest improvement with shapes in Photoshop 2021 is the addition of new On-Canvas Controls.
The Line Tool also gets its own additional improvements in Photoshop 2021 and now draws actual lines rather than long skinny rectangles. This means that no matter which tool you use, the shape's properties remain live and editable even after the shape is drawn. Photoshop 2021 expands the Live Shapes feature to include not just the Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle and Ellipse Tools from previous versions but also the Polygon Tool and the Line Tool. And along the way, you'll learn all about the latest features and improvements in 2021 that make drawing and editing shapes easier than ever! What's new with the shape tools in Photoshop 2021? In this tutorial, I show you the basics of how to draw vector shapes using the shape tools in Photoshop 2021.
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