How to Crop Custom Irregular Shapes in Gravit Designer 2020

in this lesson we are going to take an

image and crop it in simple regular

shapes and also irregular custom shapes

we are going to use one of my favorite

tools graphic designer I love it because

it's powerful and yet very easy to use

let's do it

okay this is what you'll see when you

launch Gravatt designer and you can

either enter a custom resolution width

and height or you can select from one of

these options I'm going to choose

website huge nineteen twenty by twelve

eighty pixels

okay so let's bring in an image we can

play around with I have one from

unsplash.com it's just an image of a

bunch of pets I'm going to resize this

to the full canvas and pull this over

while pressing shift to make it keep its

aspect okay I want to work with this

area okay let's start with a very simple

crop a square let's go to libraries and

shapes click this square you can adjust

it by dragging the corner okay now I

want to crop the image into this square

frame and now I'm going to press shift

and also click on the image so both the

image and the square is highlighted and

now I right click and select mask with

shape and there we have it so this is

what we can export with a new cropped

image and I'll show you real quick click

this button here that says advanced

export click selection make sure it's on

PNG and background let's choose

transparent and export give it a name

and save let's go take a look at it it's

right here so this is our new image

that's cropped as a square let's go back

to the canvas and I will do ctrl Z for

undo that's what you can do with any of

these images you can make it a circle

triangle a heart star and also you can

crop with these shapes where you draw

your own shape such as a rectangle

ellipse polygon triangle and a start now

let's do an ellipse if you hold down

shift the ellipse will be a perfect

circle okay if you let go of the shift

it'll allow you to shape that ellipse

the way you want make this or ellipse

and again so

image and the shape right-click and mask

and we have our ellipse okay now let's

put together two shapes into one okay

now we're going to combine two shapes

into one okay let's first draw a circle

and then let's choose a different shape

let's draw a rectangle okay now we want

to combine these two shapes together

let's drag the rectangle to overlap the

circle let's say that's the shape we

want the combination of these two shapes

and what we'll need to do is highlight

both shapes click one hold down shift

click the other both are now highlighted

in this one box and right click this

time select create compound so now these

two are in sync it's sort of like a

grouping they move together now but

they're not a combined shape yet so what

we have to do is right click again and

convert paths now the two shapes has

been molded into one new shape one

irregular shape one custom shape and now

we can use this to mask and get our

cropping into this irregular shape and

let's select the image while holding

down shift again right click and mask

and now we have this combined shape

that's made out of a circle and a

rectangle undo so now you know how to

crop images into regular shapes and also

a combination of shapes before

continuing the lesson let's take a quick

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coming to a theater near you now we're

going to use the past tool to create a

custom shape which you can draw in any

way you want and in any detail so it

depends of how many points you want so

let's select the path tool let's start

from here and let's close this shape by

clicking on the first dot okay so this

is the path I drew I could have shaped

it any way I wanted to and if we did the

masking again it will look like this so

that's the custom way of creating your

own shape any irregular shape you want

another thing I want to show you is how

you can use this sub select option here

to reshape some of your objects so first

let's select a square and if you select

sub select or press D you'll see these

red dots show up and now you can drag

those and around the corners of your

square okay so that's how the square

works let's use a triangle and let's

select the sub select or press D and now

these points turn white and you can drag

these over and it will change the shape

of your triangle

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because if you weren't in the subselect

if you were just in the Pointer you

can't change the angles you can just

resize the same triangle or rotate it

and finally let me show you how you can

round your edges when using the path

tool so let's select a path tool click

here let's click here if you hold down

the button while clicking and move

around you can sort of bend these lines

and click another spot here bend it

again click another spot here you can

bend and thereby you have a more rounded

shape like that it's kind of like a

irregular blob a rounded shape and to

mask that it'll look like this and you

can export that and turn it into a

sticker or what have you and there you

go that's how you use gravity and crop

in different shapes whether it's regular

shapes or irregular customized shapes

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