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The Ultimate Collection Of Photoshop Custom Shapes
Photoshop users are able to benefit from the vast amount of high-quality resources that are freely available to the community. Brushes get a lot of attention, but custom shapes are also extremely useful in the right situations. Finding a custom shape that has already been created can save you some time and headaches in your design, and fortunately there is a very wide variety of custom shapes available.
This post highlights 80 different sets of custom shapes (over 2,500 individual shapes) in several different categories. If you plan to download and use any of these shapes be sure to check to terms and conditions set by the creator of the shapes.
1. People
People Silhouettes (306 shapes)
Costumes and Characters Shapes (56 shapes)
Skateboarding (9 shapes)
Skater Collection (3 shapes)
Skateboarders (8 shapes)
Stock Girls (8 shapes)
Businessman Silhouettes (12 shapes)
Business Girls (12 silhouettes)
Jumping People Silhouettes (104 shapes)
Break Dancing (8 shapes)
Hoops (57 shapes)
Presentational Shapes (10 shapes)
Random People Shapes (11 shapes)
People Shape Set (25 shapes)
Hot Babes (7 shapes)
Go-Go Girls (18 shapes)
Sexy Stances (13 shapes)
Ladies (7 shapes)
Sexy Girls (47 shapes)
2. Animals
Birds (12 shapes)
Butterflies (38 shapes)
Horses (9 shapes)
Horses (15 shapes)
Zebras (6 shapes)
Sea Creatures (27 shapes)
Animals (10 shapes)
Animal Patterns (13 shapes)
Bugs (20 shapes)
Weathered Flying Bugs (21 shapes)
3. Planes and Boats
Aircraft (21 shapes)
Maritime (27 shapes)
WW2 Planes (13 shapes)
4. Guns and Weapons
Guns (30 shapes)
Guns (26 shapes)
Ray Guns and Laser Blasters (15 shapes)
I Love Weapons (12 shapes)
5. Halloween Shapes
Halloween Shapes (23 shapes)
Halloween Shapes (10 shapes)
6. Trees
Trees (17 shapes)
Dead Trees (24 shapes)
Live Trees (21 shapes)
Plan Trees (20 shapes)
7. Circles
Retro Circles (10 shapes)
Circles (10 shapes)
Circles, Lines and Sunlights (108 shapes)
8. Random Shapes
Stars (200 shapes)
Sunbursts (30 shapes)
Splats and Drips (15 shapes)
Splat Shapes (8 shapes)
Stains & Blots (34 shapes)
Drips (25 shapes)
Paisley (24 shapes)
Kiddy Stuffs (72 shapes)
Ribbon Collection (3 shapes)
Voters Collection (2 shapes)
Surfing Themed Shapes (6 shapes)
Hero Shapes (13 shapes)
Flames (5 shapes)
Markers (23 shapes)
Vector Shapes (13 shapes)
Arrows (10 shapes)
Speech Bubble Shapes (42 shapes)
Cartoon Shapes (25 shapes)
Assorted Logos (38 shapes)
CD & DVD Logos (7 shapes)
Foliage Shapes (371 shapes)
Tools (9 shapes)
I Love Skulls (12 shapes)
Urban Shapes (31 shapes)
World Map (3 shapes)
Banner and Scrolls (28 shapes)
Art Supplies (16 shapes)
Skyline Collection (6 shapes)
Arabeski (23 shapes)
9. Combination Packs
Custom Shapes Pack v. 1.1 (100 shapes)
Custom Shape Pack (45 shapes)
50s Custom Shapes (14 shapes)
Revolution Collection (6 shapes)
Custom Shape Mix (24 shapes)
Vector Shape Mix (50 shapes)
If you’re interested in learning more about the basics of custom shapes, how to load them, and how to create your own, try the following resources.
- What are Photoshop Custom Shapes?
- Loading Custom Shapes
- Creating Custom Shapes
- Create Your Own Photoshop Custom Shapes
- Creating Photoshop Custom Shape Sets
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Steven Snell has been designing websites for several years. He actively maintains a few blogs of his own, including DesignM.ag, which regularly provides articles and resources for web designers.
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- 2December 11th, 2008 8:35 pm
Impressive – and useful. As always! ;)
Thanks! - 3December 11th, 2008 8:37 pm
I have been looking for something like the foliage brushes for sometime now, this is awesome!
Thanks so much Smashing Magazine! - 4December 11th, 2008 8:42 pm
incredibly attractive ..ooohoooh blender in assorted logo
- 5December 11th, 2008 8:51 pm
Wow this is a grate resource of Photoshop Shapes, for a quick search. I will help lazy designers to make their goal.
One more suggestion, There are people like me who don’t know the exact name of shapes like, the retro shapes, swirls etc.. If you have added it bellow the group it might have helped us for further searching…. - 6December 11th, 2008 9:00 pm
WOW, great stuff.
- 7December 11th, 2008 9:11 pm
hot damn … these are awesome!
thanks for sharing.
cheers
david
- 8December 11th, 2008 9:36 pm
thanks heaps man, some really useful stuff on their. definitely will download some!!
- 9December 11th, 2008 9:55 pm
Great links. Keep up the good work on this site. You guys keep me coming back.
- 10December 11th, 2008 9:56 pm
nice, i always knew that shapes have been underestimated in photoshop
- 11December 11th, 2008 9:58 pm
Amazing stuff!
- 12December 11th, 2008 10:01 pm
I ‘ve downloaded some of them, but I really want it all!! Really, really great stuff!!
- 13December 11th, 2008 10:08 pm
Amazing list! Resources are really vast. Thank you for compiling this SM.
- 14December 11th, 2008 10:13 pm
thanks for the list of photoshop shapes.. smashing magazine smashes it again :)
- 15December 11th, 2008 10:15 pm
This is why I love SM. You do all the leg work and make these huge awesome lists :)
- 16December 11th, 2008 10:41 pm
Very usefull & interesting..Am just wondering how u guys think in different ways to attract designers ;)
- 17December 11th, 2008 10:57 pm
This is an exhaustive list of awesome collection
- 18December 11th, 2008 11:12 pm
Awesome collection! I will come back for sure, if I need some of those. Thanx a lot.
- 19December 11th, 2008 11:23 pm
This was actually an awsome post, thanks!
- 20December 11th, 2008 11:26 pm
Thats is just brilliant ! Thanks for this awesome list !
- 21December 11th, 2008 11:38 pm
Great collection with thousands of very good shapes. Thanks!
- 22December 11th, 2008 11:40 pm
SICK! I’ve dreamed about this collection! SM rocks!
- 23December 11th, 2008 11:50 pm
OMG this is really, really great!
- 24December 11th, 2008 11:57 pm
WOW, this is the greatest collection. thx!
- 25December 12th, 2008 12:03 am
And I think to myself… What a wonderful shape !
- 26December 12th, 2008 12:10 am
Thank you very much for this great collection!
- 27December 12th, 2008 12:32 am
You surpise me… every day. Thanks!
- 28December 12th, 2008 1:01 am
How weird to skim through a SM post and see five of my own shape collections =)
(I’ve made one of the skater collections, the ribbon collection, the voters collection, the skyline collection (my most popular creation to date) and the revolution collection.I hope some of you will enjoy them!
- 29December 12th, 2008 1:07 am
Very useful! Thank you.
It would be even more useful, though, if there was a zip file with all these shapes included for one simple download. I sure don’t have the time to visit so many websites and to do this myself. Not now anyway. Also for archival purposes, because today most of them will be there, but in 6 months from now, when I might need them, the one I really must have will be gone. For whatever reason.
Anyway, just a thought about how you could smash us even harder in our collective faces ;)
Keep smashin’
- 30December 12th, 2008 1:15 am
Great collection. Thanks for the post, appreciated.
- 31December 12th, 2008 1:26 am
Amazing!
- 32December 12th, 2008 1:30 am
Impressive list
- 33December 12th, 2008 1:56 am
<3 wonderful collection.
- 34December 12th, 2008 2:08 am
Without words…. thx!!!
Br1
- 35December 12th, 2008 2:11 am
Wooooo !!!! … are you kidding me ? … handing it over on a silver platter … tx u guyz … SM rulez
- 36December 12th, 2008 2:24 am
good selection, but not many football related shapes!
- 37December 12th, 2008 2:25 am
Fantastic collection!
* Although a single Zip** would be nice, the reason that there probably isn’t one is that ‘the least we can do’ for these free resources is visit the suppliers site, although yes, it does take a bit of time – it’s saving people a lot of cash for some quality resources :)
** Unless someone starts collecting all the resources, zipping them, putting them on somewhere like RapidShare…then posting the link in the comments…
- 38December 12th, 2008 2:34 am
whoa, this is the best ps stuff collection i have seen.
thanks - 39December 12th, 2008 2:59 am
great collection – thx
- 40December 12th, 2008 3:10 am
UNBELIEVEBLE!
- 41December 12th, 2008 3:23 am
Sensationelle Sammlung. Sensational. Great Collection.
Get infected . . . and stay tuned . . .
- 42December 12th, 2008 3:30 am
fantastiche!
thank you! - 43December 12th, 2008 3:42 am
WOOOOOOOOW !!!!!! Thanks a lot !!!!!!
- 44December 12th, 2008 3:56 am
wooowowowo! smashed with greatness again!
- 45December 12th, 2008 4:05 am
This is amazing!
Thankyou
- 46December 12th, 2008 4:26 am
This is really good for the Christmas break holiday. Cheers!
- 47December 12th, 2008 4:32 am
It’s funny how these have just appeared, I was looking everywhere online for a set of photoshop shapes in order to make buttons for a website, representing commercial businesses or services such as food related shapes that would represent and restaurant, but to no avail. this set also doesn’t appear to have anything like that.
- 48December 12th, 2008 4:34 am
Great Shapes!… very useful … thx guys!
- 49December 12th, 2008 5:00 am
@ Niall:
You’re absolutely right. Although the shapes are great, there’s not much that could be used for normal everyday (non-funky) businesses.
- 50December 12th, 2008 5:28 am
Wooow ! a über mega Collection. It will be very Usefull ! Thx !
- 51December 12th, 2008 5:41 am
Sasa,
I’m not sure that a zip file with all of the shapes would be possible. Some of the makers state that no redistribution is allowed and I believe that would qualify as redistribution. - 52December 12th, 2008 5:44 am
Ultimate Collection is right! I’ve got to Twitter about this! Thanks much!
- 53December 12th, 2008 5:58 am
I’m going to have to hire myself to create make-work jobs just to have an excuse to use all of this great stuff. Thanks SM!
- 54December 12th, 2008 6:07 am
WOW! nice collection..ThanQ Smashing magazine
- 55December 12th, 2008 6:25 am
This is just amazin’
I’ve been looking for ages, for a compilation of this size!
Thank you so much! - 56December 12th, 2008 6:41 am
Simply Fantastic!
- 57December 12th, 2008 7:07 am
nice list. i didn’t realize that there was such a call for so many slutty silhouettes.
- 58December 12th, 2008 7:18 am
awsome collection!
- 59December 12th, 2008 7:21 am
Greatness
- 60December 12th, 2008 7:22 am
wow nice collection!
- 61December 12th, 2008 7:45 am
Very nice! Can’t wait to start playing
- 62December 12th, 2008 8:28 am
Fantastic Collection.
- 63December 12th, 2008 8:37 am
I’ve noticed a few comments about every day applications. Aside from all the fun stuff and ads I’ll do with these, I will actually use a lot of the people’s silhouettes in news graphics, as silhouettes are notoriously hard to find in good quality.
- 64December 12th, 2008 9:20 am
Wow! Thanks for this amazing collection.
- 65December 12th, 2008 9:28 am
Awesome collection. I just wish I had even the slightest bit of graphic design ability.
- 66December 12th, 2008 10:01 am
WOW, I love Smashing Magazine!
- 67December 12th, 2008 10:05 am
Amazing collection ! Thank you very much !
- 68December 12th, 2008 10:08 am
Are these all royalty free to use?
- 69December 12th, 2008 10:18 am
Fantastic list as usual SM!
So handy to have all these :)
- 70December 12th, 2008 11:35 am
This made me royally excited. Awesome collection.
- 71December 12th, 2008 11:51 am
Thanks to Deviant Art for the inspiration and Smashing Magazine for the summary. Thanks guys and gals.
- 72December 12th, 2008 12:11 pm
amazing collection. you guys rock!!!! thanks for such a thoughtful post.
- 73December 12th, 2008 12:30 pm
Blender in assorted logo hoh hoh hoh – an amazing set!
- 74December 12th, 2008 1:37 pm
Heh… NY skyline still has the twin towers in it…
- 75December 12th, 2008 1:57 pm
you guys are incredible!!! Thank you so much!!!!!!!
- 76December 12th, 2008 2:48 pm
Dave: I created that one, and if you went to the DevientArt page where it’s downloadable, you’d be able to read why I kept the twin towers in.
And – as one of the creators, I can confirm what Skyhigh and Steven Snell wrote – I feel I deserve to have you spend half a minute visiting my profile in return for the hours I spent making my share of these shapes…
- 77December 12th, 2008 3:21 pm
Wonderful Collection..
Thank You Very mush Smashing mag.
Keep your way..
waiting for more great posts.. - 78December 12th, 2008 7:38 pm
super cool… love the 50s shapes!
- 79December 13th, 2008 2:06 am
such a huge collection! thanks for sharing them. just what i need right now.
- 80December 13th, 2008 2:47 am
Very nice collection! Thank you.
- 81December 13th, 2008 3:07 am
Great wide range of collection… Thanks a ton!!!
- 82December 13th, 2008 3:24 am
i do not post a lot of commets, but this topic is great! Much respect for this one!
Thanks.
- 83December 13th, 2008 5:57 am
microsoft office’s cliparts are far more good
lol
- 84December 13th, 2008 6:17 am
Thank you soooooooo much…a whole new creative world opened for me!!!
- 85December 13th, 2008 6:29 am
I’m new in Vector images. How to install these vector’s on to my photoshop?
- 86December 13th, 2008 6:31 am
That is great! Thank you!
- 87December 13th, 2008 6:33 am
Uowww great job man *-*
Very good o/
- 88December 13th, 2008 8:36 am
Wow that is a really good set of shapes.. I have to say you really do find the best content!
- 89December 13th, 2008 12:15 pm
Oh crap, I wish I spotted this earlier — much earlier. *rollseyes* I’ve been having the time of me life with the old pen tool in Illustrator creating hand-guns and skulls.
If I can only master the pen tool, then I will be able to do anything. Having said that, your resource is most blinking awesome, so perhaps I will not have to master everything.
Thank you big-time for finding this stuff — it really helps. :D
- 90December 13th, 2008 2:06 pm
Simply awesome!
- 91December 13th, 2008 3:58 pm
Sweet ! thnx
- 92December 13th, 2008 4:20 pm
In Illustrator we call these vectors!
- 93December 13th, 2008 8:36 pm
wow.nice post. i can use a lot of these. this topic needs some respect. its great
great collection. thanks for the upload. keep up the good work. take care - 94December 13th, 2008 10:53 pm
Huh…. The hard work of others and Money for smashingmagazine.
- 95December 13th, 2008 11:12 pm
What an excellent list! Much appreciated!
- 96December 14th, 2008 2:11 am
thanks. my respect * bow *
- 97December 14th, 2008 7:04 am
Oh my God! what a post. good work! pliz keep it up.
- 98December 14th, 2008 8:04 am
thanks – allready on my favorites (-.-)
- 99December 14th, 2008 12:08 pm
Yet another brilliant post – top quality links and posts mean I keep Smashing as a permanent fav link.
Keep it up – your site is a great resource. - 100December 14th, 2008 1:11 pm
awesome :o
- 101December 14th, 2008 2:03 pm
Absolutely amazing! Thank you so much!
- 102December 14th, 2008 7:56 pm
Very nice collection. Good Job.
- 103December 14th, 2008 9:21 pm
Awesome awesome AWESOME!! That’s all I have to say.
oh and AWEEESSSOMMMEEEE!!
- 104December 14th, 2008 9:50 pm
Wow. And wow. And wow!
- 105December 15th, 2008 12:17 am
Tanks for that, it will be so usefull!
- 106December 15th, 2008 3:08 am
Thanks for this great collection!
- 107December 15th, 2008 10:23 am
HOLY SHAPES!!!
- 108December 15th, 2008 12:34 pm
It’s a pity that you did’t include mine – Allsilhouettes.com. It is 100% related to sharing HQ vector silhouettes and Custom Shapes… ;-(
- 109December 15th, 2008 2:20 pm
You seem to have the ability to read my mind XDDD i was looking for this ages ago, and finally find something with quiality :D
- 110December 15th, 2008 4:09 pm
Congratulations to smashingmagazine.com…!!!
is a very well website…
very nice post and shapes…!!!
- 111December 16th, 2008 3:21 am
amazing collection!!
thanks for share ;) - 112December 16th, 2008 4:09 am
Nice but you’re missing ’stars’ – it’s Christmas, after all!
- 113December 16th, 2008 4:40 am
YEAH!!!! excactly what I was looking for!!!! thank you sooooooooo much!!! juhuuuu
- 114December 16th, 2008 4:53 am
Yeah, but is web-design art…??
- 115December 16th, 2008 5:48 am
Thank you very much… I ‘ll be grateful to u
- 116December 16th, 2008 6:52 am
i luv u so much. . . . . . . . . .
you roCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- 117December 16th, 2008 7:10 am
Any shapes where the woman don’t look slutty? Even the “Business Girls” look vampy. Not really useful in my workplace.
- 118December 16th, 2008 11:28 am
OMG.. YOU ALL HAVE EVERYTHING! THANKS..
- 119December 16th, 2008 1:21 pm
just amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- 120December 17th, 2008 12:39 am
Wow, thanks very much for all the effort, much appreciated, how i wish i would have stumbled this site a long time ago.
Towelie.
- 121December 17th, 2008 3:56 am
This is great! thanks so much for compiling this list of shapes.
- 122December 17th, 2008 4:04 am
thanks generous folks! much appreciated
- 123December 17th, 2008 6:55 am
Wow!
- 124December 17th, 2008 8:41 am
Excelente, muchas gracias por el aporte y la información…
- 125December 17th, 2008 11:38 am
Absulutly amazing…
- 126December 17th, 2008 4:26 pm
Thanks
- 127December 18th, 2008 12:43 am
Truly awesome.
Thanks - 128December 18th, 2008 1:02 am
Thanks a lot really its wonderfull archive
- 129December 18th, 2008 9:00 am
awesome.. thanks guys..
- 130December 19th, 2008 9:09 am
Very cool shape, but can u help me, i dont know how to use them in Ps CS3. Pls Help Me
- 131December 19th, 2008 9:55 am
Thanks bgt
- 132December 19th, 2008 7:34 pm
awesome … thank-you so much! Seasons Greetings,
pwren
- 133December 19th, 2008 10:19 pm
good web site for photoshop user….
- 134December 22nd, 2008 7:47 am
Adooorei…
obrigada ; ) - 135December 27th, 2008 7:34 am
No word to say…:Awesome post!
- 136December 28th, 2008 7:46 pm
hello… thanks for the free shapes and brushes…..
- 137December 31st, 2008 6:02 am
Goodness, thanks again!!!
- 138January 2nd, 2009 4:01 am
Nice & beautiful collection of photoshop shapes
- 139January 2nd, 2009 11:28 am
i loved…i go linked in my favorite and my blog
thank you - 140January 4th, 2009 11:39 pm
really…it’s cooL & awesome..
Thanks dudE’> - 141January 6th, 2009 9:33 pm
thank you very much for these
- 142January 28th, 2009 5:39 pm
BEST PS Site EVER!!!!:) GREAT JOB PEOPLE… U just saved my life…:) <3
- 143March 1st, 2009 2:50 pm
I LOVE YOU!
- 144March 17th, 2009 11:29 am
You Are A STAR!!!!! Thank you soo much for the links to how to make these custom shapes.
I will now go investigate this site. It was my first visit, but it won’t be my last
Thanks again
Billie
- 145March 25th, 2009 6:40 am
Thankssssss :P:P:P
- 146April 12th, 2009 1:15 pm
Genial!!! Exelente articulo.
- 147April 17th, 2009 5:59 pm
this might sound silly to most of you but photoshop isn’t my area of expertise.
anyway i don’t know how to use these, i’ve downloaded one, so how do i apply it to photoshop and then how do i use them in photoshop?
any help?
thanks a lot
- 148May 6th, 2009 7:35 pm
absolutely amazing!!! what a score!!!
- 149May 18th, 2009 9:19 am
I’m new to Stumble, all is looking good. Hopefully I’ll master the wonderful info available here. :)
- 150May 26th, 2009 12:08 pm
Greatest collection ever! )) Thanks!
However… several links do not work. Random People Shapes (11 shapes) and the 2nd set of horses. Could you fix them please? Please, please :) - 151May 28th, 2009 9:43 pm
Amazing Collection.And even i need some web 2.0 button shapes…
- 152
- 153June 30th, 2009 5:56 am
Thanks guys for letting us download somethings for FREE but worth too much
- 154July 14th, 2009 3:53 am
A site for all that you need awsome.
- 155July 16th, 2009 9:27 am
SIMPLE FANTASTIC! Great collection, i’ve search for something like this for a long time, thank you all.
- 156August 12th, 2009 10:28 am
Yo man..made my day….week…months..years…decades n centuries .Nice …worth n superb collection
- 157August 29th, 2009 8:46 am
WOW! now I have seen several sites that offer these things but a bunch of junk no one will ever or hardly use. This collection is just AMAZING!
thank you very much and keep up the good work.
PS I just bookmarked and hit the
RSS - 158September 2nd, 2009 1:25 am
THANK YOU SO MUCH… really useful post ;)
- 159September 17th, 2009 6:49 pm
These are awesome collection! thanks for these ultimate shapes.
i can use some for my entertainment news website. Thanks.
- 160September 23rd, 2009 12:32 pm
Wowww!!!
Awesome!!! It’s a very very post!!! thank a lot
Downloading…. - 161October 2nd, 2009 8:57 pm
I found a neat app to manage all your PS brushes. It’s called BrushO!. Look it up at http://www.brokenhoneyprojects.com.
- 162October 14th, 2009 9:17 am
thanks for sharing!!!
- 163October 20th, 2009 10:20 pm
Really awesome collection…! Thank you ………!
- 164October 26th, 2009 5:20 pm
EDAN TENAN !!! APIK KABEH SAMPEK BINGUNG !!! MATUR SUWUN —->> { this is java languange, java is an island in Indonesia. indonesia have 27.000 islands, come see indonesia.}
- 165November 16th, 2009 2:17 am
Fantastic Thanks :)
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