Photoshop ® : Easter Egg Custom Shapes

Easter Egg Custom Shapes for Photoshop and Elements

 

Thumbnail gallery of easter egg shapes for Pack 149 for Photoshop

Thumbnail Gallery of the Easter egg shapes

thumbnail gallery of easter eggs in pack 149

 

Thumbnail gallery of easter egg shapes for pack 43 for Photoshop

Thumbnail Gallery of the Easter Egg shapes

thumbnail gallery of all the shapes in the easter eggs custom shapes pack 43

 

Additional examples of easter egg custom shapes for Photoshop and elements

easter egg shapes Photoshop

examples of easter egg shapes from pack 149

 

easter egg shapes

examples of easter egg shapes from pack 43

 

Quick guide to coloring an Easter egg shape in Photoshop tutorial

coloring a custom shapes Photoshop

 

There are many ways to color a custom shape in Photoshop - this is just one of the approach.

1) Select the custom shape tool

2) Go to the custom shape palette

3) Select a shape (in this case an Easter Egg)

4) Set the shape type to be fill - top bar

5) Set the color - in this case, black

6) Apply the custom shape

7) Select magic wand tool

8) Select the egg area using the tool (now displayed as yellow though originally white)

9) Apply fill via edit menu

10) Use the magic wand to select the flower section

11) Apply a different fill - could be a gradient etc but in this case, pink

12) Copy the selection of the flower

13) Paste across the document to scatter flower shapes around and on the Easter Egg

 

You can then re-color the shape using the various color tools or perhaps use adjustment layers as this means the shape can be re-colored at any point in the creative process.

 

easter eggs

example from pack 149 - easter egg shapes applied to a blue background in Photoshop

 

gradient easter egg

example shape from pack 149 - the shape is applied as a layer and then filled with a gradient in Photoshop CS6 / CS5 to create a 3D like effect for the egg

 

easter eggs patterns

example from pack 149 - An easter egg shape applied in dark blue on a light blue background, the design was then defined via the edit menu as a pattern. The above design was then created using the layer fill pattern command in Photoshop. The shapes are a wonderful source for millions of patterns.

 

easter egg wrapping

example from pack 43. Many of the easter egg designs have empty area in the wrapping design so you might wish to add a backing color to the shape. A quick and easy way of doing this is by using the ellipse tool (also on the same tool as the custom shape tool in the Photoshop toolbox) to add a colored background to the main shape. The easter egg is then applied above the ellipse design. A slightly better way to do this is to use a selection and fill that with the lighter color and then add the shape into the selection - avoids the edge - see below

 

multiple easter egg designs

example from the shape pack 43. Using the same design as above though created slightly differently using a selection as the defining size for the shape (the selection in Photoshop is filled with a light background color and then the darker blue easter egg shape is applied). The selection is then copied and pasted and a drop shadow is added to the layer - the layer is then duplicated and re-sized as required across the design to create a design with multiple easter eggs. The easter eggs could be re-colored, rotated etc as required.

 

Free easter eggs custom shapes sampler / demo

 

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Date modified: April 29th, 2012

 

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Video tutorial: Installing custom shapes into Photoshop Elements tutorial video

Photoshop Elements also can use the custom shapes created in Photoshop. To access them in Photoshop Elements just use the file > open command or load them via the presets custom shapes folder. This is a quick video tutorial showing you how to install them. The open method doesn not always work and an alternative method to open the easter egg (or any other shapes) is via the custom shapes palette load / replace command.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUodQMLoiWg

Video tutorial: Photoshop Elements' cookie cutter tool tutorial video

Photoshop Elements has a number of its own unique features such as the cookie cutter tool (ok, you can do much the same in Photoshop but still, there is no cookie cutter tool - unless it has been hidden!) The cookie cutter tool is great for creating frames etc - and it also uses those fun loving custom shapes. Use the easter egg shapes with the cookie cutter tool as well as the standard custom shapes tool in Photoshop Elements

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GVSJQKojOI