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February 6, 2021
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Is there a way to get the legacy polygon shape tool back in PS2021?

  • February 6, 2021
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I am lowkey panicking.

 

The new polygon tool does not handle rounded corners the same way and I have found it impossible to mimic the old way it used to work, and that fat puffy star shape that the old polygon tool could make is at this point a pretty essential part of my artistic brand.

 

Is there any way to get the legacy polygon tool back?

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Jeff Arola
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Community Expert
February 8, 2021

If you still have an older version of photoshop you could save the Shapes and then load them into photoshop 2021.

c.pfaffenbichler
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Community Expert
February 7, 2021

You may want to post a Bug Report over on 

Photoshop Family

c.pfaffenbichler
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Community Expert
February 6, 2021

What exactly is missing? Could you post a screenshot of one of the »old« stars? 

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February 6, 2021

I should have done so last night but was on my way to bed, sorry.

 

So here's an example of the old way the polygon tool handled this shape (in black, fetched out of an old file and made into a brush in the meantime) and the new ones (in purple). I have been playing with the indent, ratio, and corner options for an hour+ and I cannot mimic the old way the polygon tool handled curving off the points. It has affected a "doily" shape I often make too but that one is easier to mimic with a static brush shape so it's less urgent--but it's the same issue with the way the curving inner part of the points are handled. Even if I set the rounding very high and play with the ratios the "puffy" quality of the old star does not return.

 

 

I've managed to get *close* to the old shape but you can see clearly when I overlay it (in blue) over the old shape that the straight lines make it not such a "cute" shape. 

 

 

If I am just missing the mark on how to tweak the settings to get the old shape that would also be fine with me, it's just very annoying to have to use a rasterized brush to achieve this now.

Trevor.Dennis
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Community Expert
February 7, 2021

Are you using the options in the Properties panel?

Set the blobbyness radius with my green highlight, and its depth with my red highlight.

I am not sure if you can get the star's valley to anything but a sharp corner

Does this help at all?  If not any more information that will put us on the right track?