Adding Ancient Dingbats to Shapes

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Nov 16, 2004
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I’m using PS 7 on XP Home.

I have some very old dingbat files. Some of them have "characters" that I would like to use as "shapes" in PS. I would like to make some custom shapes so that I don’t have to dig around and load up those obscure old dingbat files.

How do I do that?

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Kingdom
Nov 16, 2004
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I’m using PS 7 on XP Home.

I have some very old dingbat files. Some of them have "characters" that I would like to use as "shapes" in PS. I would like to make some custom shapes so that I don’t have to dig around and load up those obscure old dingbat files.

How do I do that?

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Make custom brushes from the shapes you like


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edjh
Nov 16, 2004
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I’m using PS 7 on XP Home.

I have some very old dingbat files. Some of them have "characters" that I would like to use as "shapes" in PS. I would like to make some custom shapes so that I don’t have to dig around and load up those obscure old dingbat files.

How do I do that?

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Layer>Type>Convert to Shape.


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Nov 17, 2004
I’ve done layer > type > convert to shape. Now how do I save the shape? I’d like to add it to my custom shapes.

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On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 10:18:24 GMT, edjh wrote:

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|> I’m using PS 7 on XP Home.
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|> I have some very old dingbat files. Some of them have "characters" |> that I would like to use as "shapes" in PS. I would like to make some |> custom shapes so that I don’t have to dig around and load up those |> obscure old dingbat files.
|>
|> How do I do that?
|>
|> <*)))))><{
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|Layer>Type>Convert to Shape.
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Corey
Nov 17, 2004
Then go to Edit > Define Custom Shape.

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I’ve done layer > type > convert to shape. Now how do I save the shape? I’d like to add it to my custom shapes.

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