Quick Tip Tuesday - Get Shapely
Do you know about the Custom Shape Tool in Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements? Lots of digiscrappers and hybrid scrappers do. But did you know you are not stuck with the sets that come with each program? There are hundreds of website offering custom shapes - and lots are free!
Here are a few of my favorites:
Dezignus.com - A huge, fabulous set of foliage-type shapes - delicate swirls, twirls and curls that are so hot in digiscrapping now. Available for free download at Dezignus.com
Ladyoak - a fabulous site with 8940 (as of today) free custom shapes sets to download. It tags each of the sets so you can find just the right one. The site requires you to register (for free) before downloading.
DeviantArt - yes, our good friends at DeviantArt have a whole section of their forums dedicated to Custom Shapes. Check it out at DeviantArt.com.
To use your new sets - download them and save them in a safe place. We do not recommend putting them in the default folder under Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop version\Presets\Custom Shapes. Why? It’s too hard to remember they are there. Put them in a scrapping folder labeled Custom Shapes and load them when you need them. That way you can easily back them up when you back up the rest of your scrapping files. (You are backing up your files, aren’t you?)
Remember you can always use your favorite search engine like Google to find more.
Until next time - Keep Scrappin’
Stan White, the DaddyKitty
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May 12th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Thanks, Jenn! I have some but did not know about some of these.
May 13th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Thank you so much DaddyKitty! Now I get to go play
May 13th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Would love to see what someone comes up with using these custom shapes. I really like the skateboarders from DeviantArt
Stan - The DaddyKitty
May 14th, 2008 at 8:04 am
Thank you so very much! I love your blog!!!
May 17th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Thanks Stan… ‘preciate the site links & the tip as to where to store them.
Great job & keep those tips coming.
May 18th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Sandy,
WE love you reading our blog! Thanks for commenting!
Stan and Jenn
May 18th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Zanne,
You keep reading them, I’ll keep writing them! Thanks for the comment
Stan - The DadyKitty