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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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InfiniteWhale

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I just cannot understand why they would make it a pain to enable the basic shapes we need, but the useless ones are front and centre. Adobe's decision making continues to be completely inexplicable.

PECourtejoie

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Please vote on the feature request I posted 5 posts earlier in the thread. https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/add-legacy-shapes-patterns-gradients-swatches-in-option-bar-contextuals-etc/idi-p/12834769

Travel-Images-Photo-Tours

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You mean your post from 3 years ago? Re-posting your link would be more helpful because I just spent 10 minutes looking for it. It is not '5 posts earlier'.

In any event, is Adobe likely to alphabetize Shapes and/or add a search button yet? Seriously, what do Adobe designers do between updates besides make it harder to find the most useful tools?

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perezg1986

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Looks like this was removed for 2024 version of Photoshop. (See attached)

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perezg1986

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Wait I just came to this page and saw the instructions above. (cursing removed)

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Ash2425

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Blown away someone that works for Adobe thought it was a good idea to hide all the shapes. Who makes these calls? Why would anyone need the random animal shapes but hide all the geometric shapes? Who ever is making these calls clealry never uses the app

Semaphoric

Community Expert

They are not hidden. The organization of them is what's new, and once you get comfortable with it, it is way superior to the old Preset Manager, particularly if you have many of your own custom shapes of differing types.

Travel-Images-Photo-Tours

Participating Frequently

So, which year are Shapes scheduled to be sorted alphabetically? I'm concerned because my demise is likely in the next 10 years.

Also, instead of hiding Shape collections and making users search for a Shape subject, how about the complete list be available after every update?

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ravit5908398

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Thank you @Jeff Arola

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Kurt21833020uft5

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No matter how many times I looked I could not find a legacy file to upload. what a stupendous waste of valuable time

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jbinco

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Yes, the "Legacy Shapes and More" option is still here in Photoshop 23.2.2. It is ridiculously difficult to find. After opening the "Window" => "Shapes" menu, you must click the inocuous little grey box in the top right corner of the menu. Then, you will see another fly-out menu with the "Legacy Shapes and More" option. CLicking that will add it as a new group under shapes. It keeps adding it again and again everytime you click it too.

This design and default settings choice makes zero sense to me. But I've only been using Photoshop for 30 years so what do I know.

Also, you can right-click and delete those four completely useless default groups. In 30 years of editing photos I have never, ever, not once needed the custom shape of a boat, a tree, a giraffe or a flower.

jane-e

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@jbinco wrote:
... the "Legacy Shapes and More" option ... is ridiculously difficult to find. After opening the "Window" => "Shapes" menu, you must click the inocuous little grey box in the top right corner of the menu.

The "innocuous little grey box" that you drew an arrow towards is called a panel menu and almost all panels have them. It's not actually a box — it's a hamburger menu icon.

https://stock.adobe.com/images/hamburger-menu-icons-set/103556331

If you are not using the panel menus already, give them a try. Each one has things you can do inside that particular panel and they are very useful.

Jane

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RishikaKhemani

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Thankyou so much for this answer. I too have been beating my head aroubd thins since a while.

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victorbiggs

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That does not work. There is no option for legacy shapes, just trees (cursing removed)

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Wilson Laidlaw

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Scroll down to the bottom of the menu in window/shapes and you will see the lowest item is "Legacy Shapes and More". If you can't see it then your version of Photoshop is corrupt. Delete it and reload from the Creative Cloud part of Adobe's Website.