June 20, 2013
More Custom Shapes
Inspired by your creations with the new shapes in Pixelmator 2.2 Blueberry, we had some fun as well and created a few more custom shapes for you to play with. You have probably already seen the new Shapes palette, and in case you missed this, you can add, save, and share those custom shapes with others.
Adding, saving, and sharing custom shapes is easy. Everything essentially works with drag and drop. To add a shape, drag the shape layer to the Shapes palette. To share shapes, drag them from the Shapes palette to your Desktop or even to your e-mail message window. Adding new shapes is just as simple–drag the shape file to Pixelmator.
Download and try the new shapes pack here. Hope you’ll enjoy them!
Peter Storm Michaelsen
Thanks for a GREAT application that keeps getting better.
The ability to work with shapes and fonts like that, saves me for a few other apps. i have been using…my workflow just got more efficient 🙂
sh33t5
I accidentally deleted a default shape (the iMac). What’s the best way to get this back?
Pixelmator Team
@sh33t5: Download the shape here: http://bit.ly/12XUkvd
sh33t5
thanks!
hamsta
Great! Now I have a compulsion to create and share awesome shapes. ^_^
Thanks Pixelmator.
SKR Imaging
Thx.. I now have many shapes thx to this great feature.. Would be great to be able to organize them by categories.
PixelmatorNinja
Nice! Good Work.
GreyGhost
Great work guys!…
Any chance of getting a “Rotate canvas” function in future release?
Thank you.
ben
Great feature!
Since you did a plus sign and a multiplication sign it would be great if you provided the rest of the basic keyboard shapes like an equals sign “=” and a dollar sign “$” etc…
PsykX
@ben : Can’t you make a $ sign with Text Shapes already ? Same for multiplication sign, but a lot of people use the x letter instead of the true × character. As odd as it seems, the existence of this sign out-of-the-box on the keyboard is uncommon knowledge.
Other than this, great little add-on here 🙂
As much as Pixelmator gets better and better, don’t get me wrong about this, I continue to say that it gets messier and messier though. On my 27″ iMac, I have way too many windows floating around. If you do this for the upcoming release, you’ll have me in your pool, ditching Photoshop completely :
1. Layer Styles (we all know it’s coming in 2013 though, it’s just a matter of time at this point)
2. Unified window interface (or an equivalent solution that will fix all the clutter)
3. Possibility to change the color of the interface, because Black is and will always be hurting my eyes
BTW, about the black interface, it is possible for anyone to create a little 3rd-party add-on to fix this. See this link, Coen took my suggestion and had time to do some great work on it : http://support.pixelmator.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7630&start=50
hamsta
@PsykX – 27 inches? I had no idea you were so well endowed! (I’m a measly 20 inches.)
Olexandr
Awesome! 🙂 Thanks!
Roel
Any place where we can recover accidentally deleted shapes? I saw the iMac one. Don’t know where else to download other shapes.
Ausra
@Roel, email at support@pixelmator.com for help.
logoped2
Funny shortcuts, I already put)))
PsykX
@ hamsta : Yeah, I always go for either everything or nothing :p
ofir mor
hi, any way to find more speech bubble’s shapes?
hamsta
@ ofir mor – August 10th, 2013 at 8:28 pm
If you have samples of what you want, I can make them for you.
Schaef
Anyone have any advice to offer on writing text on a curve (i.e. beer label, ribbon)
Claudia
I accidentally deleted the circle shape. How can I get it back?
David
I am so confused in how you can add for example a circle on top of another shape and make that area of the shape transparent? This is used in the eye default shape, where the iris is making the middle part transparent. I have also found that if I double-click that shape, I can move the rest of the eye, but the iris stays put, this results in a weird look to the eye. So my question is, how do you add a shape and have it make another shape transparent in that particular shape?
Ausra
David, there are shape modes in the Tool Options bar. Those modes (add, subtract, or intersect) help you create the transparency in the middle of the shape. Here’s a quick video about it:
http://www.pixelmator.com/tutorials/new/#custom-shapes
Dusty
Opened the shapes palette and it has the basic shapes such as line, star, rectangle, polygon BUT it has NO CUSTOM SHAPE or Custom Shape pull out folder (such as the one in the tutorial) within the Shapes Palette. Tried dragging a custom shape to the Shapes Palette.. and….. nothing.
Any help would be appreciated.
Robin
Hi there, trying pixel mayor at the moment and all the features look amazing! I’ve had photoshop for ages and am thinking of swapping, however i have one question: how can i turn an image (i.e., photoshop layer) into a shape? i have a logo i wish to convert? thanks
Jrunner
Awesome!!
Susie
Hi there, I downloaded the shapes and now I can’t find the original shapes. Have any ideas for me? 🙂 Thanks!
Susie
Feeling silly… found them!
M.M.
How can I make an arrow head on the end of a line (in vector mode), without to drawing it from scratch?
Pietro
Hi there
I’m trying to drag and drop shapes from my desktop to the palette but nothing.
There is any specific format or file extension the software required?
I tried .eps .png and .ai .
I know photoshop works with .csh but I don’t know how I can save a “logo” in csh.
Help please.
And could you tell me how I can download the shapes the Pixelmator customers share?I cannot find any download button.
Thank you very much
Daniela
thanks for this help for the shapes
this app is good but not always better because sometimes it doesn’t`t work fine
the advantage I have with this is that, I can make my banner for my youtube channel