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Arrow Custom Shapes for Photoshop / Elements

 

Arrow Photoshop custom shapes work with: Windows 7 + Vista + XP + MAC OS X (All versions)(Intel/PPC) G4 G5 Adobe Photoshop CS5 CS4 CS3 CS2 CS 7 6 (All Creative Suites) + Photoshop Elements 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Vector shapes for any size of document, CSH format, Commercial use license, royalty-free, all shapes by graphicxtras.com

 

Arrow Shapes for Photoshop CS5 CS4 CS3 CS2 etc and Elements

Arrow shapes and type combined for Photoshop / Elements tutorial

The arrow custom shapes can be combined with text / type. See an example below

 

1

Type text i.e. 'arrows'

 

You can type any text via the type tool - arrows was used for the example

 

2

Select text

 

3

Layer > Type > convert to shape

 

The text is now a shape and cannot be re-used as text (though you can always undo at this stage)

 

4

Go to the shape tool

 

5

Select the 'shape layer' option on the options bar

 

The shape to be created is a shape layer, this wouldn't work for a fill pixel shape

 

6

Click the pathfinder option you want

 

I selected intersect but you could just combine or subtract from the existing shape

 

7

Drag shape tool and release to create shape

 

Apply the shape over the top of the existing text / type shape

 

The shape is now combined with the text / type

 

arrows type

 

arrow shape head

example of one of the arrow shapes in pack 164 - arrow head design for use in Adobe Photoshop CS5 CS4 etc. It is a vector design for any size of work. The design can be re-colored, modified and more. It is one of many of the arrow designs in the set, The design can also be used as a source for brushes, patterns, frames, as a mark, displacement map and much more

 

3D arrow shape

example of an arrow shape (in blue) applied to a light sky background. The arrow shape is for Photoshop CS5 CS4 as well as Photoshop Elements and many other applications. The arrow shapes is from the custom shapes pack 164

 

multiple arrow custom shapes

example - shape from pack 164 - the arrow shapes can be applied multiple times, they do not have to be applied just once in Photoshop

 

both way arrow shapes

example shape pack 84 shapes - this is a single arrow design in black applied to a dark blue background in Photoshop

 

arrows filled Photoshop

example above shows the same design just above from pack 84 but the shape has now been selected with the magic wand tool and filled with white in Photoshop

 

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