#Wand shape magic how to#
Now that you know how to make custom shapes, the only thing you should learn is how to save them into custom shape sets. You`ve created a custom shape and it should be available in the custom shape picker. Once you`ve finished the path, right-click and select “Define Custom Shape”. If you don`t know how to use the Pen Tool yet, here`s a good tutorial. Select the Pen Tool(P), choose whatever state you want(Shape Layers or Paths) and start drawing, by following the eagle`s shape. If you open the Custom Shape Picker, you should see the custom shape you`ve just created.Ĭreate Custom Shapes using the Pen Tool(P)Īlthough the process of cutting out the eagle`s shape takes longer, I prefer the Pen Tool instead of Magic Wand, because is more accurate. Now go to Edit->Define Custom Shape and name your shape. Set the the tolerance to minimum(0.5) and hit ok. Now that we have the eagle selected, right click on the image(make sure you still have the Magic Wand selected) and click “Make Work Path”. To obtain it, go to Select->Inverse and you`ll obtain it. If you`ll click now on Delete, the background will be deleted, but that`s optional. Select the Magic Wand Tool(W), set the Tolerance to 20 and click on the blue background. In both cases, what we need to do is to trace the outline of the object.
Create Custom Shapes using the Magic Wand Tool(W) If you don`t know how, you might want to check out this tutorial I wrote a while ago about how to use the Pen Tool. So, for accurate results, I`m suggesting you use the Pen Tool. On the other hand, Pen Tool does an extraordinary job on cutting out objects, but it has to be done manually by user(which is you), therefore the time to do it depends on the difficulty of the object. This tool works best on simple images and well defined objects because is making the selection according to colors. Magic Wand Tool does the job fast (almost instantly), the quality of the selection might be poor. Magic Wand Tool versus Pen ToolĪlthough both tools are mainly used for the same thing which is to cut out objects, there are some differences between them. First one and the easy one, using the Magic Wand Tool(W) and the second one, using the Pen Tool(P). I`m going to show you 2 ways of cutting out objects.
#Wand shape magic download#
For this tutorial, download this flying eagle picture.
I`m suggesting you Flickr as the start of your image search because it can filter through copyrighted and free-to-use images. The first step is to find a proper image from which you should cut out the shape you need. There are only a few steps to cover and the only things you need to know is how to cut out objects using either the Pen Tool or Magic Wand Tool. In this tutorial, I want to show you how to create Photoshop custom shapes, straight from images. What if you need an object and don`t know from where to get it or how to build it? It`s simple. Working with custom shapes can save you a lot of time.
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