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Chapter 4
Drawing Shapes
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Chapter
4
Drawing Shapes
Photoshop provides a range of shapes that can be used with photos or in the creation of
your own designs. These tools allow you to create web page buttons, borders for photos,
company logos, artistic designs and so on.
A Drawing Rectangles
1 The SHAPES TOOL is at the lower section of the TOOLS panel. It may contain a
rectangle, ellipse, line or custom shape depending on which tool was used last.
B Rectangle Styles
There are numerous styles that can be applied to a shape.
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8 Try some other styles from the STYLE PANEL MENU. Some are suitable for
rectangles others are less effective.
NOTE: These styles can also be applied from the STYLES panel as you
did in the last chapter.
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C Creating Buttons
Buttons have become a vital part of web sites. Photoshop allows you to quickly produce
professional looking buttons.
2 Collapse the PANEL GROUP if it is
expanded.
NOTE: When you make a change only the shape in the selected layer
is altered.
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NOTE: When creating ROLLOVER buttons you can use CANVAS SIZE
from the IMAGE menu to set the canvas to the size of the
required button.