Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 Studio Techniques

Shape Tools

The Shape tools are great for creating simple geometric shapes (Figure 1.92). These tools are much more powerful than what you'd expect at first glance. We'll look at the basics here, and then expand on them in later chapters.

Figure 1.92. Press and hold one of the Shape tools to see a full list of the tools available.

Before you dive into the Shape tools, you need to think about what kind of result you want to achieve, because you have three ways of using these tools, each of which will lead you to a different outcome. You'll find the trio of choices in the far left of the options bar (Figure 1.93). The first (leftmost) choice will ...