Painting and Drawing - Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 for Photographers - page 339

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The way that successively
drawn custom shapes in-
teract can be customized
via buttons on the options
bar.
(1) Single new shape.
(2) Add shape to existing
shape.
(3) Subtract shape from ex-
isting shapes.
(4) Subtract overlapping
areas of existing shapes.
(5) Use the intersection of
the areas as a new shape.

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Even more shapes
Elements comes supplied with a vast range of shapes. New shape sets can be added to those
already visible as thumbnails by clicking the side-arrow button in the Custom Shape Picker
panel. If you can't find a favorite here then why not try some of the extra shape sets that can
be downloaded from specialist Elements resources websites?

The Cookie Cutter creates fancy crops
based on custom shapes.

Cookie Cutter tool
Also included in this vector type (hard-edged) Drawing tools group is the Cookie Cutter tool.
Although not strictly a drawing tool, the feature works in a very similar way to the Custom
Shape tool as it also allows users to select and draw a range of predesigned shapes in the
workspace. It is after the drawing step that the two tools differ. The shape drawn with the
Cookie Cutter is used to define the edges of the current image. In this way the feature func-
tions as a fancy Crop tool, providing a range of graphic designs that can be used to stamp
out the edges of your pictures.