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Where's the old shapes gone from Photoshop, arrows, icons etc, now we have boats, really

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November 6, 2019
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Where's the old shapes gone from Photoshop, arrows, icons etc, things we've been using snice the start of photoshop, Now we have boats, really? who signed that off give us back the arrows signs etc

Feature request

解決に役立った回答 davescm

Go to menu Window > Shapes then click at the top right of the panel that opens and in the drop down menu choose "Legacy Shapes and More"

Dave

J_S_

Participant

Yes I have leaves and animals??? I have never once needed those. Garbage update guys.

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Wendy31539654lf6i

Participant

I agree, arrows should be standard not legacy. this is really weird. Who signs off on these things? Do they actually use photoshop?

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sarad33717362

Participant

So annoying. I don't even have legacy shapes available.

jane-e

Community Expert

So annoying. I don't even have legacy shapes available.
By @sarad33717362

Hi Sara

Can you show a screenshot of your Shapes panel (Window menu) with the panel menu (lines in upper right) opened so we can see all of the options?

Jane

WizWorldLIVE

Inspiring

It's very unintuitive. This is what the menu looks like. There's no real indication that you have to access the hamburger menu to find "Legacy Shapes and More"

richardb99682028

Participant

Adobe ensuring they rigidly uphold their 25 year policy of making everything as unfriendly as possible.

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Shawn28781768bhse

Participant

Whatever PM approved removing these as default and hiding them behind some window you never use, and a dropdown menu should be fired. What a joke.

Why wouldn't you default to have it be included and users can remove them if they want?

And of course this option is not available in the Shapes pop-up window as you would expect it.

gener7

Community Expert

It's changed for the better. If you have a Favorite Folder, you can drag it to the top of the list. You can also create a new Folder and drag your favorite shapes into it. The search bar allows you to see all arrows or music notes shapes as an example. The Heart shape came from another folder. So what I need is all in my custom folder.

I just dragged it there and it stays put.

Below the search box are your recently used shapes which may save you looking for it again.

Learn how to use the Shapes Panel and it will work for you.

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damienl69889493

Participant

It's 2022 and I still have to activate "Legacy Shapes" to get a basic arrow? Who imagined this was a good idea, and who imagined that a rowboat would be more usedful than arrows, banners, and bullet points for PHOTOSHOP?

Maybe reduce the focus on AI tools that only 1% of people use and start looking at your competitors (like Affinity) for usability ideas. The UX has become an absolute nightmare for the average non-power user.

Ussnorway7605025

Legend

the trouble with putting a commitee in charge of something is they 'FEEL' something needs to change so they add a boat... then it gets sent to another dev team and they put the boat in its own box so people can find it but no one sees it so another team makes that box the default and sticks all the old things into Legacy shapes ... then Adobe has 2000 'meetings' and no one puts their hand up to say 'WTF' so it becomes law and at that point the ACP see it, point out that its busted but its too late to fix by then because Adobe has already done it

rinse and repeat about 4 times a year and you end up with the current state of Adobe software... to be fair, some changes are good

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Pfeiffer89

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It's now 2022 and this conversation has a lot of hints as to how to access arrows but i literally cannot find them. I do see that icon that says "legacy shapes"which opens to "legacy default shapes" which opens to "arrows" but NOTHING is in any of the folders. I've also searched through old films (i've been using adobe photoshop for years but none of the past versions will open. I can see folders that say "shapes" but they're all empty.

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markm37797317

Participating Frequently

I have played around with the line tool trying to get arrows etc, to the point of nauseum. Who has the time to research, post and hack away trying to figure these things out. Getting paid by the hour people!!! Not for diagnostics. At fifty something a month I near clear answer, or maybe a phone conversation!

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jane-e

Community Expert

@markm37797317

Mark, can you see if this helps you to understand the line tool and how to get the arrows?

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/line-tool.html

Jane

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

I am not completely sure I am not duplicating existing information in this thread, but Photoshop Shapes has changed since this thread was first created in 2019. The way I win back the functionality of the old system is to add Legacy Shapes and More to thew new Shapes panel (which is not the same as the drop down in the Options bar when the Custom Shape tool is selected) and have the Search Bar enabled. That way you can find what you are looking for without struggling through the nested groups. The only issue is that you do need to know the naming system Adobe use. e.g. if I want 'speech bubbles I have to remember they are called 'Talk' bubbles.

The same thing applies to things like presets and even tools. With hundreds of presets (there are more than ten trazillion presets in the Kyle Webster Megapack alone!). Use the search window or Discover to make your life easier.