QuickTips: Create CustomShapes

This is for Adobe Photoshop, so it probably wouldn't be of much use if you are using Jasc Paintshop Pro. I think you can make shapes like this with Paintshop Pro, but you'd have to find a tutorial for that program specifically

Glad you liked the tutorial

Sounds like the problem could be that you selected another layer, then selected the Custom Shape layer again. It's a bit hard to explain... but basically you need to make sure the shape has the little dark line around the edges. Otherwise it won't realise you're trying to define the shape, because you've just selected the layer and not the shape itself.

In the Layer pallette, there should be a little box showing the colour of the shape, then next to it is a box showing the path itself - that's what you have to click when you select the layer. When it's selected, that little box will have a white outline around it and the shape itself will have the outline showing on your canvas.

That's a fairly long explaination, but it's very simple really Hope that works!

(actually, another way is to press A on the keyboard which will choose the Path Selection tool (black or white arrow), then just click on your shape. This should let you choose "Define Custom Shape" too)

and u said to lower the opactiy but theni return the opacity, the background is the color instead of the shape. maybe thats why it wont let me save the shape, but i dont know why it did this

I'm not sure i understand what you mean. In photoshop it will be a vector, but when you go to "Save As", you can save it as a JPG. Or do you want to turn it into pixels rather than a vector? If you want to do that then you can right-click on the layer in Photoshop (in the layers pallette) and select "Rasterize". Another way is to go to Layers > Rasterize > Shape.

Hope that helps