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There's a ton of things that the new polygon
tool can do with a few adjustments to the options. You can
create starts, diamonds, funky rounded stars or whatever. All
you have to do is play around.
Above are some examples of the things you can do
with the polygon tool. The first thing you should do to start is
to select the polygon tool. It is in the fly-out menu on the
shape tool. Select it and then look at the top of the screen in
the options palette.
What you can see is a ton of things you can do.
You can change the blending mode, the opacity, the layer style,
the way in which Photoshop renders it on the screen (i.e. Shape,
path, or normal rasterized) and of course you can change the
type of shape and its attributes. Here is what you should be
looking at.
So you push the little arrow at the right of the
shapes and you get a little drop-down box to look at. In it is a
bunch of options you can dial in to make all kinds of shapes.
Let's just take a star for example.
To create a star, you want to indent the sides
by 50% for a perfect star, less than that for a more subtle
start etc... You will also want to have 5 sides to your polygon.
So that's a really easy way to make stars. Since
Photoshop did not come with a star tool, you will have to do
this to make one. You never know when you might need one.
The polygon tool will also make pentagons,
hexagons, septagons, octagons, decigons, and whatever other
weird "agons" you can think of. You want a 12 sided polygon? Go
for it. You can make some really weird and wild shapes with this
puppy.
You can also dial in the radius of the polygon which constrains
the shape to a certain size. This is a great feature if you want
a bunch of little stars that are the same size exactly.
You can dial in the roundness of the edges in
case you want a rounded polygon shape. You can also adjust the
roundess of the indents. So you can make a sort of sweeping
indent into your polygon.
This thing is a lot of fun. You need to play
around with it for awhile to get the hang of it, but it should
not take long before you master it. Have fun. |