Photoshop custom shapes are a huge asset for any landscape architect or designer who wants to utilize Adobe Creative Suite for a landscape plan, section or perspective. Custom shapes allow you to insert an object, such as a tree, and stretch it without loosing any quality because it is a vector graphic. Once you get the right size, you are able to apply blending options to the shape and alter the depth, texture, and opacity. Photoshop custom shapes are extremely useful for landscape plans where you can create custom images for individual plants or plant types. (Note: we take no credit for the creation of these resources, but thank the authors for sharing them with the rest of us!)

TREES:

Live Trees – 21 shapes

Plan Trees – 20 shapes

Dead Trees – 24 shapes

PEOPLE:

People Silhouettes – 306 shapes

Businessman Silhouettes – 12 shapes

Business Girls – 12 shapes

ANIMALS:

Birds – 12 shapes

Weathered Flying Bugs – 21 shapes

Bugs – 20 shapes

Horses – 9 shapes

Sea Creatures – 27 shapes

Butterflies – 38 shapes

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Benjamin Boyd is the editor of Landscape Invocation and a graduate of the University of Florida. Ben currently practices landscape design in Washington D.C.