Embellish / Flourish / Swirl / Floral Custom Shapes for Photoshop, Elements

 

Embellish / flourish / swirl / floral 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. CSH format. Vector shapes for any size of work. Commercial use license, royalty-free, all the floral shapes are by graphicxtras.com

 

Floral / swirl custom shapes - stunning vector designs for all kinds of swirly whirly work

Tutorial: Flourish EPS files, opening them in various software (PDF)

How to open and display the EPS designs The tutorial shows the opening of vector EPS designs in Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro, Illustrator, Fireworks and others. The tutorial also shows the accessing of the designs in Adobe Bridge.

Opening floral custom shapes in Photoshop tutorial

 

preset manager

 

1) Start Photoshop

2) edit > preset manager

3) select the custom shapes option

4) Click the Load button

5) select the required swirl / floral CSH file

6) Select shape and use in Photoshop or elements as required.

Quick frame for Photoshop - custom shape tutorial

1) Open image

2) select image with elliptical marquee tool

3) select > inverse

4) edit > fill -- with white or black or solid color

5) select custom shape tool

6) select the color for the design such as black via the foreground color

 

shape tool

 

7) Apply one of the frame designs from the shapes pack 160

 

frame shape

Rough Contour in Photoshop using custom shapes tutorial

1) select custom shape tool

2) select shape

3) set the option to 'path' along options

 

paths

4) apply path

5) go to the window > path palette

6) path menu 'make selection'

 

selection

 

7) select > modify > expand

8) set to 40pts (depends on the path)

9) edit > stroke

 

stroke path

 

10) set color

11) select > modify > expand > 20pts etc

12) repeat as many times as required

 

The result is a crude (certainly not as good as a result generated by an application such as CorelDRAW or Illustrator)

 

contour photoshop

Divider / border shapes using floral photoshop shapes tutorial

1) fill document with a solid color such as purple using edit > fill command

2) select rectangular shape tool

3) set to shape layer

4) set new color

5) apply shape at the bottom of the image and set the bottom of the shape at the bottom of the document

6) size the rectangle design

7) layer > duplicate layer

8) move new layer to the top of the document

 

so we now have a design with two equal side top and bottom dividers / borders

 

divider

 

9) layer > flatten

10) select the shape tool

11) select one of the line / divider designs from the shapes set

12) draw custom shape at the top

13) layer > duplicate layer

14) drag to the bottom part of the document

 

divider shape

Text on a path and warping and Photoshop shapes tutorial

1) select the shape tool

2) set the path option (option bar along the top of Photoshop)

3) draw design (scroll floral design)

4) select the text tool

5) set font and font size and color

6) click the path with the text tool for the start point for the text

7) type text

8) select text along path

9) go to the 'create warped text' along the option bar

10) select type of warp (arc etc)

11) flatten

 

warped text photoshop

Custom shapes testimonial

 

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Creating a floral logo in Photoshop Elements tutorial

Load the floral designs (the designs used are from pack 87) via the file > open command in Photoshop Elements and then access the shapes via the shapes tool. Set the color of the custom shapes to green - apply the designs as a new layer (set along the option bar). In this example, create two equally sized layer floral shapes. Place the first layer at the far left of the design and the other layer at the far right of the design. Edit menu and use the transformation commands to flip horizontally one of the designs

 

Flatten the design and then select Imprint font and type the text 'Floral' and place the design at the top of the page and place between the two flattened floral shapes. Then create some new text for the 'gift shop' and place in the other empty space at the bottom of the image

 

The design can be re-colored and changed in many different ways but it is a quick and easy way to create a quick logo from any of the designs on the site

 

floral gift shop

Added: December 22nd 2011

 

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