Within Adobe Photoshop 7toCS3 or Photoshop Elements 2to6 you find shapes. A shape is a path that can be put in a library. We have put together an extensive collection of shapes, you will find animals, arrows, cars, musical instruments, stars, signs and much more...

How to load an FXPak Shapes?

1- The Shapes are to be installed in the Preset/Shapes folder.

2 - Launch Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Photoshop Elements

3 - Open an image and select the Shape Tool in the toolbox

4- Click the shape pop-up button in the option palette

5- You will see the current library. You may load one of the other library available for more shapes

Using a Shape...

6- Select one Shape, click and drag on the current layer

7- The shape is coming as a path. You can select the 'Paths' palette and do 'Make Selection'

8- Go to the 'Layer' pop-up menu and select 'New Fill Layer/Solid Color'

9- This will create a new layer made of your shape or of the multiple shapes you may have put together

10- You can apply any style to your new layer...simply select the 'Styles' palette