45+ Sources and Sets of Photoshop Custom Shapes
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For graphic designers, working with custom shapes in Photoshop can be a big time-saver. While free brushes get a lot of attention, custom shapes probably get less. Here is a rundown of some of the best resources to download free custom shapes for your own work in Photoshop.
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- 50 Essential Photoshop Text Tutorials
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- 40 Excellent Photoshop Tutorials for Textures and Backgrounds
- 40 Photoshop Tutorials for Lighting and Abstract Effects
Photoshop Custom Shapes from the Adobe Exchange (370 sets)
The Adobe Exchange is a great place to find all kinds of resources, including custom shapes for Photoshop. There is plenty of variety and a huge amount of sets to choose from.
Custom Shapes from MyPhotoshopBrushes.com (30 sets)
MyPhotoShopBrushes isn’t limited to just brushes. They also offer 30 sets of custom shapes, including animals, people, objects, and more abstract shapes.
Custom Shapes from About.com (9 sets)
About.com has nine sets available for download, including basic shapes, arrows, symbols, snowflakes, stars and sunbursts, speech bubbles, and more.
Custom Shapes from Ladyoak (154 sets)
A huge resource for custom shapes, Ladyoak offers over 150 sets.
Photoshop Custom Shapes from BioRUST (21 sets)
BioRUST has 21 sets of shapes for download, including maps, silhouettes, animals, music-related shapes, mythical creatures and more.
Photoshop Shape Sets from eDuration (6 sets)
eDuration offers six sets of shapes, including logos, icons, buttons, and some miscellaneous shapes.
Custom Shapes from Nathan Blenke (100 shapes)
A large set of shapes that includes a number of office objects and various other shapes.
Custom Shapes from Grafiks (24 shapes)
A set of 24 various shapes, including some swirls and abstract shapes.
Butterfly Shapes from Dezignus (49 shapes)
This is a big set of more butterfly shapes than you should ever need.
Foliage Shapes for Dezignus (over 350 shapes)
You can use these foliage shapes to create your own patterns or to add some creativity to text/fonts.
Businessman Silhouettes from Dezignus (12 shapes)
Silhouettes are always nice to have on hand for when you need them. This set provides shapes of businessmen.
Custom Shapes on deviantART
The users of deviantART make it one of the best resources for finding custom shapes. There are countless sets of shapes for you to browse through, and many of the best sets are featured below.
Straights and Swirls from thesuper
Aircraft Custom Shapes by Luke Roberts
Maritime Shapes by Luke Roberts
Skateboarding Custom Shapes by Luke Roberts
Sunburst Shapes by Backflip540
Revolution Collection by HebeDesign
Ribbon Collection by HebeDesign
Skater Collection by HebeDesign
Abstract Shapes by xyunaxfantasiesx
Batman Vector Shapes by Retoucher07030
Animal Shapes for Photoshop by UnidentifyStudios
Sexy Stances Vol 1 by danijeL-one
Assorted Logos by Richard Perkins
Silhouettes Bernius by eiermann1952
Stains and Blot Custom Shapes by Limoli
Basics of Working with and Creating Custom Shapes
Want to learn more about working with custom shapes or creating your own shapes? Here are three articles to get you started.
How to Install Custom Shapes (written for CS2) – PixelDigest
How to Create Custom Shapes – PixelDigest
Photoshop Tutorials: Photoshop Custom Shapes – Photoshop Essentials
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65 Responses
Nice and very usable list for.
oh! very nice collection, thx!
These are cool custom shapes collection. They are all vectors, so you can easily resize without resolution problem.
Wow…… awesome… thanks for the effort. These things really do help web designers like me.
This is a great list – thanks for sharing.
Great collection, but now I’m going to waste the morning in Photoshop and not get any real work done…
These are really great! Thank you
Fantastic. Thanks for this ‘shop collection.
Never really searched for PS shapes, so this collection will come handy
I was looking for more shapes to add to my collection, Thanks!
They will serve me well!
As will it serve other web developers!
Hip Hip – Hooray!
im sure as hell am going to use those useful tools. I’m getting sick and tierd of paying big bucks to istock photos for every image i need, thanks god there are still people who are willing to give good artwork for free . cheers mate
These are cool custom shapes collection. They are all vectors, so you can easily resize without resolution problem.
Wow, Such huge collection.
Great round-up! Thanks a bunch for sharing, keep up the great work.
Thanks for compiling this list! I especially love the link for creating custom shapes.
There are some nice sets, thank you for the list.
Very useful post! So much good stuff – its amazing!
I love the auto gauges, I’m definitely going to use this on a future blog!
I’ve been having a ton of fun with the birds. Good stuff.
your website is aweomse i just book marked it as this list of resources are trully great, thanks oince again.
oh! very nice collection, thanx
Very nice collection of PS sets. I especially like the car logos. They’ll come in handy now when I feel like ranting about our good ‘ole American cars. lol.
I am looking for the numbers 1-9 + 0 Is there anywhere I can find those?
Chrissy Michelle,
I don’t think I’ve ever seen custom shapes for numbers. They may be out there, but I don’t think I’ve seen them. I’m not sure what advantage they would have over just using text.
Great stuff
Thanks
im sure as hell am going to use those useful tools. I’m getting sick and tierd of paying big bucks to istock photos for every image i need, thanks god there are still people who are willing to give good artwork for free . cheers mate
I created some really nice buttons with those…
I’ll be using them as my templates from now on.
Thank you for sharing.
Amazing brushes for website design. I will love to use it in my website design too.
Thanks.
I created some really nice buttons with those…
I’ll be using them as my templates from now on.
Thank you for sharing.
Thanks a lot, this is really help full
Where can I find custom shapes for photoshop 6.0
These are amazing designs!! i will be sure to use them in my new website.
I needed those shapes. thanks for that and the tutorials on installing photoshop shapes was helpful too.
thanks for the tutorial on installing photoshop shapes and thanks for the shapes resources as well. this is a great help to me
keep posting entries like this.
I’ve always loved this list ever since I stumbled upon it as a novice a couple of years ago. Now am glad to be a contributor to the design community as well.
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