Legacy custom shapes in Photoshop 2020

[Daehith]

Anyone know how to get to the legacy custom shapes? I don't really need a silhouette of a gorilla, but some of those geometric shapes and word bubbles were things I used all the time and now they seem to be gone. Thanks!

[Jeff Arola · Accepted solution]

If you go Window>Shapes you can load the Legacy Shapes and More.

[Daehith]

Thank you!!!

[krittennicole]

I don't have this as an option on my version of PS (v21.0.1). When I clicked "Restore Default Shapes...." it just doubled the folders "Leaf Trees, Wild Animals, Boats, Flowers". I also can't find a download or import of the legacy shapes... any suggestions?

[Jeff Arola]

Yes go to Window>Shapes

[letifgonzales]

I am having this same issue.  I doubled them... I am trying to follow your steps.

[Kreemerz]

[Abuse removed by moderator] I cant find the bar for the widows, files and fill options on the top. I can't save my imagesThere are many, many people having trouble finding this EVEN after following the so called instructions. 

[Sterphy]

Gabe you ... [abuse removed]

[gener7]

The reason one poster had problems  is because he did not have the latest minor update with the "legacy shape" menu option.

So "check for updates" is a tad more helpful.

Flaming others for "not following directions" isn't and in fact is rude. That's just a Moderator's opinion. 😉

[gener7]

If only you started with that markedup screenshot instead of your condescending remarks to me and other posters here, this discussion would have ended long ago. Work on your forum manners.

[PECourtejoie]

Yes, it is the case because you are not in the shapes panel, but in the option bar, and you did not select the legacy shapes, but restore default shapes option.

[frankp49451826]

I'm having thesame problem!!!!!

[lynette2003]

I tried the Windows -- Shapes BUT "legacy shapes" only loads the trees and animals again. Where are the usual arrows and bubbles and frames, etc.?

[Jeff Arola]

After you load Legacy Shapes and More, click on All Legacy Default Shapes.

[lynette2003]

thank you Jeff, I finally found it.. wow.  For others looking, it is important to use the Windows Menu and Shapes; it doesn't show up in the Shapes panel for the tool.

[Danny Swinnen]

thanks all , faced the same problem. And Adobe support asked me to reinstall PS or to copy the shapes from the older PS version in to the 2020 . Strange 

[PECourtejoie]

Lynette, you mean it is important that you use the shapes panel that you get from the menu Windows>Shapes, and NOT the drop down visible in the option bar.

[Talon46]

Thanks!  That worked for me.

[davidg51]

Found the same. This is the stupidist thing to have to go through. Adobe can be so counter productive!

[PECourtejoie]

Yes, I made a feature request about this very issue, please vote and explain how baffled you were not to find the option where you expected to find it in this discussion: https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/add-legacy-shapes-patterns-gradients-swatch...

[Serene_shape6C1B]

Thank you so much for this! How to find these shapes is definitely not intuitive. I called Adobe support and they weren't helpful. 

[Wilson Laidlaw]

Any suggestions for the Mac version of Photoshop CC 2020? I still have the application support files for CC2019, so I suspect the shapes will be somewhere in there but some help on the folder location would be most useful if anyone can point me in the correct direction. 

[Wilson Laidlaw]

Sadly the location for custom shapes in PS CC 2019, which I found under Applications/Adobe Photoshop 2019/Presets is empty, so must have been deleted during the update to 2020. Removing the sensible custom shapes like arrows and replacing them with things like flowers and trees seems a retrograde step for professional photographers. I downloaded a free set of custom arrow shapes from https://www.brusheezy.com/shapes/49547-abundant-arrow-shapes-pack and then used the import custom shapes tool (in the "cog" toolbox when you open the custom shapes tool) to import the csh arrows shapes library file. 

[gener7]

The 2019 Shapes are in the Legacy Shapes and More folder, but go to Window > Shapes and load that folder from the Panel menu if you don't see it.

[Wilson Laidlaw]

Not in Mac OS 15.2 (Catalina)