September 2006
Beginner
574 pages
24h 23m
English
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Chapter 12: Drawing with Brushes, Shapes, and Other Tools 335
Drawing with Shapes
• Width and Length. This setting determines how wide and how long you want
the arrowhead to be. The measurement unit is the percentage of the line width,
so if you enter a number lower than 100, your arrowhead is narrower than the
line it’s attached to. You can pick values between 10 and 5,000 percent.
• Concavity. Use this setting if you want the sides of the arrowhead indented. The
number determines the amount of curvature on the widest part of the arrow-
head. See Figure 12-25. Pick a setting between –50 percent and +50 percent.
TIP There are also arrows available in the Custom Shape tool if you want something fancier.
Figure 12-24:
Top: A hexagon drawn with the Shape tool.
Bottom: Turning on the Star option inverts the angles on a polygon, so that
instead of drawing a hexagon, you create a star.
Figure 12-25:
Two arrows drawn with the Line tool.
Left: An arrow with no concavity.
Right: An arrow with concavity set to 50 percent. Both arrows have
Layer styles applied to them so they don’t look so flat. You can read
more about how to do that in the next chapter.
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336 Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual
Drawing with Shapes
The Custom Shape Tool
The Custom Shape
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