1K+Free Photoshop Custom Shapes: The Ultimate List
I am a big fan of vector art. This is the main reason why I so love Photoshop custom shapes. This tool in Photoshop lets you use graphics called “shapes” as vector elements in your design. The ability to enlarge vectors without losing crispness or sharpness makes them incredibly useful to every designer.
But what is Photoshop Custom Shapes? Adobe introduced custom shapes along with Photoshop version 6. With custom shapes, you can do much more with vector graphics than you could before. For example, you can break a shape to use a curve that you like or combine paths of two or more custom shapes to come up with a new shape. But what is more exciting is the ability to use custom shapes created by some generous and talented artists who make their work available to others for free. So even if you can’t draw, as long as you have the ability to arrange your elements in a way that makes them nice to look at, then custom shapes become even more valuable to you.
Meanwhile, scroll down to the bottom of the page for a quick tutorial on how to use Photoshop custom shapes–that is if you are still not acquainted with this very potent Photoshop tool.
Therefore, now that you are ready to use custom shapes. Have fun downloading some useful shapes below. But first, I would like to take this opportunity to let you know that I have just finished working on my own set of Photoshop custom shapes featuring labels, badges, ribbons, and tags. Below is a preview:
40+ Free Photoshop Custom Shapes: Badges, Ribbons, and Labels
Likewise, we have created a new category in this blog dedicated to Photoshop custom shapes. Click on the link and browse through our collection, which we have been updating regularly.
PHOTOSHOP CUSTOM SHAPES TO DOWNLOAD FREE
I. Frames and Borders Photoshop Custom Shapes
01-Round Floral Frames: 32 Shapes
A set of custom shapes is called round floral frames. These shapes are great for framing your photos, images, or texts. In this set, you have 32 designs to choose from.
02- 32 Free Square Floral Frames
Meanwhile, here is another set of square floral frames that you can use to frame your photos, graphics, or texts. You have 32 various styles to choose from.
03: 80 Laurel Wreaths for Logos Vol. 1
Here is the first set of custom shapes for Photoshop featuring laurel wreaths. These are very useful for making logos for businesses as well as for events.
04: 80 Laurel Custom Wreaths for Logos Vol. 2
Furthermore, laurel wreaths are quite useful in creating logos for companies and organizations and product branding and events. Here is the second set of laurel custom wreaths featuring a total of 80 custom shapes that you can use in Photoshop for free.
05: Gift and Sale Tags Custom Shapes
There are 50 different custom shapes in this set that you can use for making sale tags, labels, or gift tags. To customize these shapes, apply patterns, color overlay, or text.
Here are 32 round logo shapes that you can easily create beautiful vector designs in Photoshop.
07: Round and Square Vintage Label Custom Shapes
Here are 26 vintage label templates that you may download as custom shapes. This set features mostly square, round, and oblong label shapes.
08: Jar and Bottle Labels: 40 Custom Shapes
Moreover, here are Photoshop custom shapes featuring different vintage label shapes for your crafting projects. These label shapes are perfect for creating your very own jar and bottle labels. To use these, add your text and print on sticker papers.
09: Round Tribal Logo Shapes: 64 Vector Graphics to Collect
In this round, you will find 64 round logo tribal shapes in this set that you can use to create tribal, ethnic, or bohemian-themed designs. The shape set, which is compatible with Adobe Photoshop, consists of 64 vector shapes of geometric designs reminiscence of ethnic Indian ornaments.
10: 64 Wedding Wreaths Custom Shapes Great for Logos
Here is a new set of custom shapes featuring wedding wreaths that you can use to create logos, posters, invitation cards, and many other things–even those not related to weddings. Moreover, these wreaths feature hand-drawn leaves.
11: 32 Round Logo Custom Shapes to Download Free
Meanwhile, here is a set of 32 round logo shapes great for creating beautiful vector designs in Photoshop. Custom shapes are handy if you create something you need in various sizes and resolutions, such as logos and t-shirt designs.
12: Bracket Frames and Mattes Custom Shapes – (Download here)
In addition, we give you a set of bracket custom shapes using dingbat fonts. These are useful for digital scrapbook projects. They are available for download at the author’s blog.
II. Decorative Photoshop Custom Shapes
13 – Ribbon Custom Shapes
For your creating projects, here is a set of ribbon custom shapes that you can use as accents in your layout. These are useful for titles or any part of your text that you need to highlight. These are useful for invitation cards, birthday greeting cards, wedding invitations, and many other things.
14: 32 Free Bow and Ribbon Shapes for Photoshop
In addition, although the holiday season is still months away, you can always bring cheer and festivity to your designs. Bows and ribbons are also great for other occasions such as birthdays, Mother’s Day, and even Father’s Day. Ribbons and bows are most popular in decorating retail and gift packaging. Thus, festive bows are a perfect way to decorate gifts for your family and friends.
15: Curly Heart Shapes: 20 Vector Custom Shapes for Photoshop
A set of custom shapes for Photoshop featuring curly heart shapes with dot lines. These are great for creating logos for weddings, Valentine’s Day events, or tattoo designs if you wish.
16: Infinite Heart Shapes: 20 Custom Shapes for Photoshop
Since love is supposed to be infinite, these shapes would be useful for creating greeting cards, gift tags, flyers, and even packaging and promotional materials for Valentine’s season.
17: Home Icon Shapes: 48 Designs for Websites and Logos
Here is a set of home icon shapes that you can use as a scalable vector in Photoshop. You may use these home icon shapes to design websites (user interface), posters and brochures, infographics, or other projects requiring a house or home shape.
This set contains 48 summer silhouette shapes, particularly beach-themed graphic elements. These summer silhouette shapes are useful for making labels and logos related to travel or summer.
19: Chinese Custom Shapes Pack: 76 Free Vector Graphics for Logos
A set of 64 Chinese custom shapes for Photoshop. These design elements, common in Chinese designs, include floral elements, scale patterns, mandala shapes, and symbols found in Asian cultures such as paper lanterns, folding fans, traditional Chinese arcs and buildings, and many more.
20: Abstract Coffee Logo Shapes: 28 Designs to Collect
The coffee shapes are in abstract form, with some shapes looking like doodles. These shapes are great as the main element of logo designs. For example, you can create logos for a coffee shop, packaging for coffee beans and ground coffee, or a design for t-shirts and reusable cloth bags. Likewise, you may also use them to make party invitation cards and gift tags!
21: 48 Coffee Cup Shapes for Creating Logos and Other Vector Designs
The coffee cup shapes that you may find in this set are diverse, so if you are looking for a particular shape for your logo, then we suppose you can find one among these custom shapes.
III. Nature Silhouettes: Flowers, Trees, and Plants
22: 48 Tropical Leaves Custom Shapes for Photoshop
What can you get from this set? Well, silhouettes of leaves of tropical plants such as palm trees, banana, Chinese evergreens, plumeria, and even some herbs, and more.
23: Tree Shape Silhouettes: 40 Free High-Quality Vector Images
In this set, you will find shapes of trees that you may typically find in a landscape and forest and jungle settings. The shapes include acacia trees, oaks, mango trees, cherry, maple, and pine trees. Thus, this would be useful for creating digital landscapes or forest and jungle sceneries.
24: 26 Hibiscus Flower Shapes for Logos and Vector Drawings
Hibiscus is one of the most popular tropical flowers used in designs to represent summer. You see them in logos of popular brands, such as sporting goods, hotels, and restaurants. They are also popular for party logos and t-shirt designs.
25: Fall Leaves Silhouettes: 42 Photoshop Custom Shapes
You can use these fall leaves silhouettes to make logos, packaging designs, background patterns, and even flyers or brochures with Fall or Autumn themes. In addition, these would also great for t-shirts or fabric shopping bag designs.
26- Palm Tree Silhouette Shapes
Here is another set of free palm tree shapes featuring various silhouettes of palm trees. These palm tree shapes are useful for creating logos, party flyers, brochures, invitation cards, and many more!
27: Winter Leafless Tree Shapes
Meanwhile, if you wish to create a winter wonderland scene, you may use these leafless trees on snowy white background. Maybe, you can add some sparkles and winter animals in the foreground to make them more interesting. These are also perfect for greeting cards, postcards, and other graphic designs you plan to make for the winter holidays.
28- Custom Shapes-Ornaments (download here)
Here are 77 ornaments designed as custom shapes that can be used in Photoshop. Compatible with Adobe CS3 programs.
29- Palm Trees Custom Shapes (Click here)
This set includes 17 very detailed shapes of trees in Photoshop Custom Shapes (CSH) format. A sample artwork to demonstrate some uses of these shapes is shown in the preview below.
30- Dead Trees Custom Shapes Vector (to download, click here)
This set is composed of 24 silhouettes of dead trees packed as CSH or Photoshop custom shapes.
31- Dead Trees Custom Shapes Part 2 (download here)
Here are part 2 of the dead trees custom shapes. 24 more shapes are useful for making Halloween-themed designs.
32- Live Trees Custom Shapes (download here)
This second set of trees comprises 24 silhouettes of live trees packed as CSH or Photoshop custom shapes.
IV. Animal Silhouettes and Shapes
33: Spider Web Shapes
Aside from posters and flyers, you may also use these Halloween spider webs for online banners and sale tags. In fact, you can also make patterns for backgrounds that tile seamlessly or for product and toy packaging. This set includes Halloween spider webs. Like bats, cats, and ghouls, spider webs are also classic Halloween decorations.
34: Flying Bird Shapes for Creating Scenic Landscapes
These custom shapes are great for enhancing your landscape and nature-themed canvas in Photoshop. For example, you may add a group of flying birds in a landscape drawing using these shapes. You may also create a logo or a t-shirt design but combining one shape with type or post.
35: 56 Useful Bird Silhouette Shapes for Photoshop
There are a total of 56 bird silhouette shapes in this featuring various species such as herons: ducks, swans, flamingos, sparrows, gulls, doves, hawks, and many more. For example, you may use these shapes to create logos, make seamless patterns and backgrounds, or as accents to complement a layout on nature for t-shirt designs, web banners, or product packaging.
36- Horses Custom Shapes (download here)
This set contains 15 horse shapes in CSH or Photoshop custom shape format. This set was created using Adobe Photoshop 7. For personal use only
37- Wild Animal Custom Shapes (Click to download)
A collection of various wild animals that you can download as custom Photoshop shapes.
38- Animals Custom Shapes (Download here)
Here is another set of wild animals in silhouette. In addition, these are available as Photoshop custom shapes.
39- Custom Shapes: Birds (Click here to download)
Set of 12 custom shapes for Photoshop featuring different species of flying birds.
40- Heraldic Vintage Custom Shapes (Click here to download)
This set includes 63 heraldic shapes that you can use as custom shapes in Photoshop. A CSH file can be downloaded from the link.
V. People Photoshop Custom Shapes
41- 48 Free Yoga Poses Custom Shapes for Logos and Other Designs
Among the yoga poses included in this set are standing tree pose, downward and upward dog, dancer pose, side plank, forward bend, handstand, and many more! These are in silhouettes so that you may play around with the colors. Moreover, you can even fill the shapes with patterns if you want.
42- Business Ladies Custom Shapes (Click here to download)
This set includes 12 silhouettes of businesswomen in Photoshop Custom Shapes (CSH) and EPS format.
43- Silhouettes of Jumping People (Click here to download)
This set includes 104 silhouettes of jumping people in Photoshop Custom Shapes (CSH) format.
44 – Free Vector Silhouettes of Common People (Click here to download)
This set includes 200 silhouettes of people in various casual poses: sitting, standing, walking. In addition, there are silhouettes of people with umbrellas and hats, with baggage and bags, different ages and occupations.
45- Custom Shapes of People Silhouettes (Click here to download)
If you need more silhouettes, then here are 60 silhouettes of people in individual poses or as pairs.
VI. Geometric Photoshop Custom Shapes
46: Summer Sun Custom Shapes
The sun shapes come in various designs–some look like gears, others look like sunflowers, and some look cartoon-ish. For example, you can use these shapes for casual not-so-formal projects. Below is a preview showing some of the summer sub-custom shapes in this set.
47: 32 Abstract Sunburst Custom Shapes
Especially during Summer, these sunburst custom shapes will come in handy. By the way, sunbursts refer to capturing the sun in your photo where you can see its rays in a star-like shape. One would usually be able to capture a sunburst in landscape photos during a bright sunny day!
48- Straights and Swirls (Click Here: External Site Download)
These are some technical shapes for logos. Moreover, you can use them for creating tech backgrounds.
49- Isometric Shapes II (Click here: External Site Download)
This set includes 16 isometric shapes in vector format (CSH). They are therefore ideal for your high-res projects.
50- Photoshop Shapes: World Map (Click here: External Site Download)
This set includes the world map as well as the other major continents such as the UK and USA shapes. Therefore, these could be very useful in any design projects requiring maps. As an example, you can use these maps in making infographics.
51: Airplane Silhouette Shapes
These 40 airplane shapes are very detailed. Thus, these silhouette shapes are ideal for logos or labels. For example, you may use these shapes as a starting point for your logos and other branding materials. Just add your text and other design elements in Photoshop. Below is a preview showing some of the airplane silhouette shapes included in this pack.
HOW TO INSTALL CUSTOM SHAPES
First, let’s have a basic tutorial first on loading the custom shapes you have downloaded somewhere in your Adobe Photoshop program. The Photoshop custom shapes pack usually has a file extension csh (e.g., shapes.csh)
FIRST STEP:
Firstly, select the Custom Shape Tool from the toolbar.
SECOND STEP:
Secondly, go to the Custom Shapes Options Bar and then select the Custom Shape Picker dropdown. Next, click the arrow on the right side of the picker. From here, we want to “Load Shapes…“.
THIRD STEP:
Thirdly, once you click this, a browser will open, then locate or select the directory where you saved your custom shapes. Once you found the CSH file, click OK. Your new shapes will be available in the Shape Picker afterward.
