Photoshop Project 9: Creating New Shapes Using The Pen Tool

In this project we create some shapes and then customise them using the direct selection and pen tools.

Shape 1: A square with a duplicated square on top of it.

• Use the free transform tool to rotate the second square by 45 degrees.
• Use the direct selection tool and set a radius to give the first square some rounded corners.

Shape 2: Use the direct selection and pen tools to add extra anchor points to the first square.

• By directly selecting and deleting the anchor points we get this effect.

Shape 3: This effect is achieved with the exclude overlapping shapes option in the shapes menu.

Shape 4: This effect is achieved by clicking on the anchor points with the pen tool and then holding and dragging.