Quick Tip Tuesday – Straight as a Arrow

Ever needed to draw the perfect arrow in Photoshop or Elements? There is a great hidden feature to the line tool that makes it easy!

Go ahead and select your Line Tool by clicking and holding on the Rectangle Tool.

Along the top is the option bar – click the down arrrow and you get this dialog box:

Click in your document and drag out your arrow to the length you want. The color will be your foreground color and you can change it or apply a layer style later. Below I’ll show you what some of the different settings do:

Play around with this useful tool and you’ll be pointing everywhere!

Till Next Week – Keep Scrappin’

Stan

(Arrow Photo used under a Creative Commons license)

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