Follow these quick steps to create shapes in Photoshop:
Select a shape tool
From the toolbar, click and hold the Shape tool () group icon to bring up the various shape tool options — Rectangle, Ellipse, Triangle, Polygon, Line, and Custom Shape. Select a tool for the shape you want to draw.
Set shape tool options
In the shape tool options bar, you can set:
Mode: Set a mode for your Shape tool — Shape, Path, and Pixels.
Fill: Choose a color to fill your shape.
Stroke: Choose the color, width, and type of your shape stroke.
W&H: Manually set the width and height of your shape.
Path operations: Use path operations to set the way your shapes interact with each other.
Path alignment: Use path alignment to align and distribute your shape components.
Path arrangement: Use path arrangement to set the stacking order of shapes you create.
Additional shape and path options: Click the gear () icon to access additional shape and path options to set attributes such as width and color of the on-screen display of your path, and constrain options while drawing shapes.
Draw a shape
Click and drag on the canvas with your selected shape tool to draw a shape. This automatically creates a new shape layer in the Layers panel.
Hold the Shift key while drawing to make your shapes proportional.
With your shape layer selected, use the Move tool to move your shape around and reposition on the canvas.
To easily scale, transform, or rotate your shape, choose Edit > Free Transform or press Control+T (Win) / Command+T (Mac).
Edit shape properties
You can easily edit your shape properties directly using on-canvas controls or accessing Shape Properties under the Properties panel. On-canvas controls make your interaction with shapes more intuitive.
You can use on-canvas transform and rounding controls to adjust the appearance of your shape. The keyboard modifiers will work the same way for on-canvas transform controls as they work in Transform tool on Photoshop. You can modify the radius of all corners of your shape at once or hold Alt (Win) or Option (Mac) as you drag to change the radius of a single corner. For triangles, all corners will be modified even if you drag one of them. Easily rotate a shape using the on-canvas rotate handle that appears as you hover over your shape on the canvas.
Click the reset () icon in the properties panel to reset all modifications at any time.
Draw a shape and use the on-canvas controls to easily edit shape properties.
Once you’ve drawn a shape, you can click anywhere on the canvas to bring up a Create Shape pop-up dialog and modify your shape parameters.
Use the Create Shape (Create Rectangle in the example above) dialog to modify parameters.
) group icon to bring up the various shape tool options — Rectangle, Ellipse, Triangle, Polygon, Line, and Custom Shape. Select a tool for the shape you want to draw.
) icon to access additional shape and path options to set attributes such as width and color of the on-screen display of your path, and constrain options while drawing shapes.
) icon in the properties panel to reset all modifications at any time.
