When it comes to custom shapes, I can't stop remembering my drawings from childhood. All kids in the yard had a competition in designing the best shape. We drew ships, cars, people, ornaments, and more to get the right to be called a creativity master, lol. However, today's innovations make things much easier, hence, you can easily enrich any web project with a large number of free Photoshop custom shapes.
By the way, custom shapes were introduced in the 6th Photoshop edition, they allow you do much more with vector graphics than a pen tool. Photoshop custom shapes are very useful, if you do not have an appropriate brush you can use a readymade custom shape preset. Shapes differ from brushes greatly they can be easily scaled to large sizes without loss of quality and sharpness and can be great helpers when editing PSD templates.
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In this compilation we've gathered more than two thousands of custom shapes, only the most impressive ones and they can be downloaded for free. When downloading, do not forget to read terms of use according to designer guidelines. Here is a tip on how to upload custom shapes:
- Open your Adobe Photoshop,
- Select Custom Shape Tool on your toolbar (shortcut U),
- From the Options Bar click the Preset Picker triangle icon,
- Click the gear icon on the right of Preset Picker Panel,
- Select Import Shapes.
Once you upload a new custom shape you can change its size, color layer style in a few mouse clicks.
In this roundup you will find the following types of free Photoshop Custom Shapes:
People
Coronavirus Shapes
60 Silhouettes
Silhouettes Megaset
Sexy Girls
Geometric
55 Hearts Photoshop & Vector Shapes (CSH)
6 City Skylines
Ornaments
Sacred Geometry
30 Sunburst Custom Shapes
Bracket Frames
Vehicles
Aircrafts
Maritime
Racing Flags
Animals
Wild Animals Shapes
Photoshop Fish Shapes
Animal Custom Shapes
Birds
Animal Shapes
Logos
Car Logos
Assorted Logos
Arrows
Custom Arrows
Hand Drawn Arrows
Lines and Flashes
Light Rays
Media
Red Faction
Valve
Circle Clocks
Media Shapes
Flowers
Flower Custom Shapes
Flower Shapes
Flower Custom Shapes
Floral Banner Shapes
Other Shapes
Various Shapes
50-s Custom Shapes
Splat Shapes
Shape Mix
Snowflakes
Custom Shapes Pack
Email (Envelope) Photoshop Custom Shapes
Free PSD Templates
TopSound - Recording Studio Free PSD Template
Tiless - Home Decor Mockup Free PSD Template
Cybemic - eCommerce PSD Template
Telecord - Digital Marketing Multipage Creative Free PSD Template
Recordo - Free Music Studio design PSD Template
Race - Sports Event Creative Multipurpose Free PSD Template
Evolwent - Interior Design Website Mockup Free PSD Template
FoodWine - Food And Beverage Website Design Free PSD Template
How do you like these shapes? Small wonder that now we need some Photoshop skills and a number of worthseeing custom shapes to become a creativity master. Anyway, we should take all advantages of new technologies for composing mind-blowing goods on the web. Do not forget to share this post with your friends to help them replenish their collection of custom shapes and free PSD templates!
FAQ
Any shape you can think of is used in some design. The more pre-made shapes a designer has – the more options he has for his project. People, cars, animals, plants, artificial objects – literally, everything that surrounds us in everyday life.
Designers are artists and they definitely can draw all the shapes they need manually but that will take time. If the project doesn’t need some original drawings it is much easier and faster to take the shape made by someone else.
Nope, designers create such sets for Adobe Illustrator and other drawing software too. However, Photoshop is the most popular of the drawing software programs, so we focus on it in this article.
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