Save and share custom shapes

The Shape tool comes with tons of unique shapes you'll find across a number of different shape collections, including Basic, Activities, Food, Objects, Arches, and more. You can also save shapes and shape collections of your own, share the saved shapes with others, or delete the ones you no longer use.

Save a custom shape

1. Select the Shape tool by doing one of the following:

   • In the Tools sidebar, select the Shape tool .

   • Press U on your keyboard.

2. Do any of the following:

   • In the Layers sidebar, find the shape you'd like to save, then drag its thumbnail to the list of shapes in the Tool Options pane.

   • Select a shape in your image, click More next to the Collection pop-up menu, and choose Add Preset.

   • Click Add in any shape collection to save the custom shape to that collection.

📘 Note: When you save a custom shape, the shape’s size and rotation are saved, but its style properties aren’t.

Create a new shape collection

1. Choose the Shape tool in the toolbar.

2. Click More next to the Collection pop-up menu and choose New Collection.

Customize shape presets

Once you've created a preset or a preset collection, you can rename, redefine them, or share them with others.

1. Choose the Shape tool in the toolbar.

2. Open the Shape browser and do any of the following:

   1. Share a custom shape: Drag and drop a shape from the list of shapes onto the desktop or into a Finder window. Share the .shapes file with someone else via email or any other way you like. To share your shapes or vector designs across different image editing apps, you can also export them to the SVG file format.

   2. Share a collection of custom shapes: Select the shape collection you'd like to export, then click More next to the Collection pop-up menu and choose Export. Share the .shapes file with someone else via email or any other way you like.

   3. Share your entire shapes library: Click More next to the Collection pop-up menu. Press and hold the Option ⌥ key, and choose Export All. Share the .shapes file with someone else via email or any other way you like.

   4. Rename a shape collection: In the Collection pop-up menu, open the shape collection you'd like to rename. Click More next to the Collection pop-up and choose Rename to give your collection a name.

   5. Remove a shape preset: In the list of shapes, Control ⌃ – click a shape and choose Remove Shape.

   6. Remove a shape collection. In the Collection pop-up menu, open the shape collection you'd like to remove. Click More next to the Collection pop-up and choose Remove.

   7. Reset the shapes library: Click More next to the Collection pop-up menu. Press and hold the Option ⌥ key, and choose Reset All.

❗Important: Resetting the shape presets to default removes any custom shapes and returns all the default shapes that come with Pixelmator Pro.