Ornamental shapes

[Snubs]

Does anyone know were I can get some royalty free Ornamental shapes Like you would fined in custom fences , gates, stair rails,etc . If not How can I make my own custom shapes ? I got a book full of them and they would work great if I new how. Shapes seem to work better for me than brushes.

[Phoenix Wynde]

I hope this helps, I've never made Custom Shapes before, I'm more of a "Brush Man", myself.

instructables : [Graphics] How to make custom shapes

[Snubs]

Thanks!. Well I would like brushes to but some leave like over spray around them and they dont come out very sharp for me .I seem to have better luck with the shapes. Thanks again!!

[Tony_photoplus]

Well there are ways to sharpen the brush image, either within the brush menu itself or many of the filters will do it for you, besides the sharpness filter.

The place I always start to look is DeViant Art. An amazing art site of creativity and brushes shapes etc. Google brought up loads of sites for shapes, but here is the link for shapes in DeViant art and my search within it

deviantART Search: Photoshop shapes

Now there has to be something in there. Hope it helps

[Tony_photoplus]

Almost forgot to say try using fonts as they are shapes as well. Now they are easily found any where on the web and you can turn them into shapes, but using them as fonts I doubt you would need to.

Hope it helps

[Snubs]

Originally Posted by Tony_photoplus

Almost forgot to say try using fonts as they are shapes as well. Now they are easily found any where on the web and you can turn them into shapes, but using them as fonts I doubt you would need to.

Hope it helps

Thanks for the tip!........................

[nwfotobug]

Shapes tut in CS2:

Making shapes is quite easy. Figure out how you big you want the shape to be, open up a canvas with that size. use brushes or fonts, cut them, paste them, erase them, until you get a design you like. its easier to work in black when creating a shape. also, make sure all your pixels are cleaned up, you dont want any straying pixels wondering around. merge it all together into one layer. once merged, use your magic wand and highlight your new shape, then go to your paths button, click on the little arrow on the right, and click on make work path. a new layer should show up in your box. now go to your menu bar at the top and go to edit/define custome shape. Click on your shapes tool. and you will see your shape at the bottom. Now make sure to save it. Use your preset manager in your shapes file. And you have a new shape. I hope this helps.