M: Where did my basic custom shapes go

[debra_pearlman]

I'm on the latest version of Photoshop CC 2019.  I select custom shape (I want to create a talk bubble) but my basic shapes seem to be gone.  All I get is Tree Leaves, Wild Animals, Boats and Flowers...what gives? I tried to reset default shapes and it just gave me the same choices.

  

[davescm · Accepted solution]

Hi

Open the Shapes panel (Window >Shapes). Click at the top right of the panel and in the drop down menu choose "Legacy Shapes and More"

Dave

[debra_pearlman]

Thanks Dave, seems to have done the trick...funny thing in PS 2020, but you gave the solution

[debra_pearlman]

To follow-up, this is the shape picker I cannot find:

[Guest]

As Dave mentioned

[patriciamcgrath1270]

Help. I've done everything mentioned and can not find an option for "Legacy Shapes and more" What am I missing. I am using Photoshop 2022 and I'm tired of wasting my time looking for things that used to be there for the past 10 years.

[jane-e]

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@patriciamcgrath1270 wrote:

Help. I've done everything mentioned and can not find an option for "Legacy Shapes and more" What am I missing. I am using Photoshop 2022 and I'm tired of wasting my time looking for things that used to be there for the past 10 years.

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What version do you have open (not installed)? The Shapes panel (Window menu, not options bar) with Legacy Shapes and More in the panel menu was introduced with PS 2020.

Show a screen shot if you don't see it.

Jane

[DW-FP]

It may be helpful to search for this exact YouTube video called: Adobe Photoshop 2022 - Where to find (legacy) shapes, published by YouTube user Ramon van Bedaf. 

(I don't know if I can post YouTube links here and don't wish to risk sending my post to moderation for that reason.)

On a related note, it might be nice if Adobe simply moved anything "legacy" automatically into our Creative Cloud library so we aren't relying on the actual Photoshop app user interface to find them. 

[Jesse236205617v5c]

This might bee too late but I had the same issue as you until I did the following. Go to the menu, then Window>shapes. Once that box is there you will only see options for useless things like animals and what not, but lick on the three lines at the top right of that little box. There should be an option to select legacy shapes and then you'll have it in your selection!

[Jesse236205617v5c]

I apologize for the typos, that was rough to read through myself.

[davescm]

See my previous post . To add the legacy shapes use Window >Shapes panel

Dave

[debra_pearlman]

I found my shapes, thank you Dave.  Now I seem to not be able to adjust where the point is pointing.  I want the point on the left, but I can't seem to drag the vectors about.  Any suggestions?

[Guest]

Just select the anchor point with the direct selection tool

[davescm]

As Ged says - use the direct selection tool (white arrow)

Dave

[debra_pearlman]

Yes, I tried that but it only moved the entire shape.  But then I clicked inside the image and the anchor points became active.

Thanks

[Guest]

When you first draw the shape all the anchor points will be active, just click once on the anchor point you want to move with the direct selection tool so that point is the only active one and then click again to drag

All active points are blue, non active are white

All anchor points active

Only one active anchor point

[RodolpheR]

 I used to have several shapes with the shapes tool, even basic ones such as arrows, stars etc... but in

Photoshop 2020, I don't find them anymore.

​Are they still there? and how can I get them back?

I check the panel and there is no options to load.

Also, I tried to reset to default but it loads several times the same folders and can't even delete them?

Do you have a link to download them again (for free) so I can import them back?

And how can you delete a shape folder if the option is grayed out?

thank you

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[Chuck Uebele · Accepted solution]

Click on Window in the main menubar, then select "Shapes." In the flyout menu, select "Legacy shapes and more." Find the folder where the shapes that you want are in, and select them from there.

[RodolpheR]

Thank you so much 🙂

[DW-FP]

Thank you for this answer. What a curious decision to replace the default shapes that have been there since before I can remember with a selection of trees and boats. Why not just leave the "legacy" shapes in there by default in their own tidy folder so people don't have to scratch their heads and go to help forums? 

Anyway, thanks again for the insight. 

[ChrisLeicester]

It's ridiculous. How are rectangles and circles "legacy" shapes? Are Adobe planning to ditch them in the next release because the only shapes that they think we want now are flowers and animals, and nobody needs circles any more?

[DaBee]

Thank You 🙏 you saved me a lot of time !

[kevinc81534176]

Some of the things that software developers (generally) do, never ceases to amaze me.  Why on earth, would Adobe not have put the legacy shapes as default in the dropdown selector?  Why?  Yet another waste of my time trying to figure out what went wrong!  I'm guessing that developers at Microsoft and Adobe are one and the same thing, right?

[Kathy K.]

Hi I have done everything here and see the legacy folder but it does not open import or anything. I clicked in the four lines, I right click on the folder. What am I missing?

[jane-e]

@Kathy K. 

Can you please show a screenshot of your Shapes panel (Window menu > Shapes) with the panel menu open and the Legacy Shapes folders expanded?

`Jane