Docs / Designer Studio

Shapes

Clip the print to one of 4,808 shapes in 103 categories, or a geometric primitive you size yourself.

The Shape library displays holiday silhouettes as numbered selectable tiles. — The Designer Studio Shape library, showing the 4th of July category and numbered shape tiles.

The Shape section shows a selected silhouette with size, flip, rotation and alignment controls. — Shape 008 selected at 100% width and height, no rotation, centered on the canvas.

Pick a shape

Choose a Category, then a shape in the grid. None removes the shape. Categories include badges, sports from baseball to wrestling, wildlife and mounts, dogs and cats by breed, holidays, western, fishing, flowers, mountains, music, skulls, and geometric shapes.

Shape options

Control	What it does
Width, % / Height, %	Size of the shape's placement box relative to the canvas.
Flip horizontal / Flip vertical	Mirror the shape.
Invert shape mask	Keep the art outside the shape instead of inside it.
Rotation	Rotate the shape. Rotation clips the shape at its placement box.
Horizontal / Vertical alignment	Left, center, or right; top, middle, or bottom.
Polygon sides / Star points	For the polygon and star primitives.

Width, height, and alignment position the shape inside the current canvas without resizing the document.

A 100% print-resolution crop showing the arctic wolf and screened edge on black — Edge treatments finish whatever outline the print has. This sample uses the artwork's own outline with no shape: Balanced preset, Dot Fade, 0 mm inset and 5 mm screened feather, at 100% print resolution on black.