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Legacy custom shapes in Photoshop 2020

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November 9, 2019
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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!

Correct answer LizzieDe

Thank you so much Jeff, although it took me a minute to realise you meant the 'Window' menu on the toolbar. I'm sure I'm not alone here. I kept opening the shape menu on the 'Custom Shape' toolbar. See screenshot folks, just in case!! We're all in a hurry these days so it slipped past me too the first time. FYI its happing for the Brushes too but same solution!

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Cedarstrip

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Clicking on the Windows Shapes option does not give me this popup, only the side bar with trees, boats etc. No option for legacy shapes appears anywhere.

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Roccabella

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Here's what you do.

Go on to the forum and callout the pricks that changed all these basics features that we all used on a daily basis but instead of being able to get on with our lives and do jobs for our friends and clients we've got to waste and extra hour a day talking to Adobe forums looking of he answers..... while paying subscripiton fees

I cannot wait until someone makes a similar program and start learning it cos Adobe have just become pretentous Wan*ers who think these features are not important

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rukko

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Just stumbled on this thread. Totally mystified by the idea of "2019 Shapes" and "Legacy shapes", it's funny really. Thanks to those who posted the solution.

M Davis Clarke

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Yay!!! I learned something new today. This has been very helpful; thank you 🙂

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Gretschman65

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Hi Jeff
I have read through all of this information and I have also looked at other threads. I am using the latest version of Photoshop on my mac and ALL I can get are the new, pretty much useless, shapes, unless you're David Attenborough or work for "The World Wildlife Fund".
ALL of the good ones are gone, and when I go to the "Window" tab, as you suggested multiple times, there is NO "Legacy Shapes and More" folder.
As a few other people here have stated, the only thing I've managed to do so far, is to double up on the shapes I already had, and which are no use to me.
Please help.
Thanks,
Rick
P.S. Could you ask Adobe why they keep fixing things that are NOT broken.

PECourtejoie

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If you go to the Windows menu, select Shapes, from there, you will get the shapes panel (or Palette if you want their old names), where you will find the panel menu on the top right, where you will find the legacy shapes, in wich you might have to dig deeper to find the old, old ones.

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Chris25703411l71j

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Although I did not ask you directly about accessing the legacy files, I want to thank you for putting the steps to find them in clearly. I read your explanation and accessed them straight away after having read a number of other explanations ending up getting nowhere! Thanks, Chris.

LizzieDeCorrect answer

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Thank you so much Jeff, although it took me a minute to realise you meant the 'Window' menu on the toolbar. I'm sure I'm not alone here. I kept opening the shape menu on the 'Custom Shape' toolbar. See screenshot folks, just in case!! We're all in a hurry these days so it slipped past me too the first time. FYI its happing for the Brushes too but same solution!

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heatherh58383268

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All the legacy shapes except leaf trees, wild animals and boats exists, which I mean really, who needs those. This guy will give you a download and help walk you through it to get the good and necessary ones back, bad update adobe, come on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WK9NlvUt8A I did this and it's all good now!

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anna10014

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Thank you!

Adobe please restore the old custom shapes for all Mac users.

Jeff Arola

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You don't have Legacy Shapes and More listed in the Window>Shapes panel?

You have to use Windows>Shapes since any other Shape lists like in the tool options bar don't list Legacy Shapes and More.

Can you post a screenshot?

Jeff Arola

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Just go to Window>Shapes and load the Legacy Shapes and More.

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Wilson Laidlaw

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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.

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Wilson Laidlaw

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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.