creating 'actual' custom shapes

[pea]

Hello, i was wondering how to create custom shapes with CS2. At the moment i'm dirtily drawing straight line angles freehand and they look terrible.

How would i, for example, cut the corners a square. Id use the rectangular marquee tool rotated 45 degrees and then cut off the corners like that. But it's not accurate at all and there's no shading to make the line look smooth.

Thanks. Pete

[Elder-Bunny]

Find a pen tutorial. It's easy then.

[pea]

pen as in freehand pen or a tool?

[Elder-Bunny]

A tool

[pea]

Ok, i thought i might have missed something. Thanks

[Elder-Bunny]

Welcome.

[pea]

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I found it . can't believe i didn't see that

[pea]

i'm not so sure this is what i'm after. Unless i'm wrong, the pen tool can't delete points? So if you made 2 points on a corner and deleted the point on the corner, it would chop it off. And if you can do that, how would you duplicate it so each corner has the same amount chopped off.

Pete