Open a design in the Adobe Express editor.
- Welcome to the Adobe Express User Guide
-
What's new
- New features
-
Get set up
- Learn the basics
- Access the app
- Preferences and settings
-
Create and edit videos
- Create videos
- Edit videos
- Organize clips
- Change file formats
-
Create and edit images
- Create and modify with generative AI
- Edit images
- Change file formats
-
Create and edit documents and webpages
- Create and edit documents
- Create webpages
- Create drawings
-
Create with templates
- Create templates
- Edit templates
-
Add effects to your designs
- Add audio
- Add animations
- Add text
- Add images and visuals
- Create QR codes
-
Organize your designs
- Arrange layers and pages
- Import assets
-
Work with other Adobe files
- Work with Photoshop and Illustrator creative assets
- Work with Acrobat
-
Share and publish
-
Share and collaborate
- Invite collaborators
- Copy files between accounts
- Comment on shared files
- Privacy and permissions
- Unpublish shared files
- Share designs as remixable templates
- Present a design
- Create TikTok videos and share them to TikTok Ads Manager
- Technical requirements for sharing videos to TikTok Ads Manager
- Share large files using WeTransfer
- Print and order designs
- Design and print using print-ready templates
- Design for prints
- Manage presentation pages
- Printing in Adobe Express FAQ
-
Schedule and publish content
- Media specifications
- Content Scheduler overview
- Connect Facebook
- Connect Instagram for business account
- Connect X (Twitter), Pinterest, LinkedIn or TikTok
- Generate captions for social media using generative AI
- Schedule and publish social media posts
- Create Shared Calendars
- Shared Calendar access and permission
-
Share and collaborate
-
Manage brands, libraries, and projects
- Create brands, libraries, and projects
-
Manage collaboration
- Edit roles in brands
- Apply your brand colors and fonts to designs
- Best practices to apply your brand colors and fonts
- Share brands
- Leave shared brands
- Custom fonts overview
- Add custom fonts to your brand
- Set brand style controls overview
- Share a template with controlled permissions
- Create from shared templates
- Share libraries
- Create new files, folders, brands, and libraries
- Share projects
- Move files, brands, and libraries
- Copy files, brands, and libraries
-
Adobe Express on mobile
- Get set up
-
Create and edit designs
- Create images with generative AI
- Create text effects with generative AI
- Insert objects with generative AI
- Remove objects using Generative fill
- Generate editable templates with generative AI
- Create and edit videos
- Explore templates
- Work with Photoshop and Illustrator assets
- Create and manage brands
- Delete files
- Import PDFs on mobile
- Share designs
- Troubleshoot
-
Troubleshoot
- Known and fixed issues
- File conversion issues
- Browser extension issues
- Projects issues
- Linked assets issues
-
Adobe Express subscription
- Free trials
- Subscription options
- Manage subscriptions
-
Adobe Express for education
-
For educators
- Adobe Express for Education overview
- Adobe Express for Education teachers verification
- School or district accounts overview
- Benefits of classroom accounts
- Personalize your education settings
- Create and access educator accounts
- Classrooms overview
- Create classrooms
- Add students to classrooms
- Manage classrooms
- Assignments overview
- Create assignments
- Share assignments
- Provide feedback on assignments
- Troubleshoot issues with assignments
- Assignments and classrooms FAQs
- Change email address for educator account
- Delete Adobe account
- Migrate projects to the latest Adobe Express for iPad
- Troubleshoot Adobe Express on iPad
- Adobe Express Classroom integrations
- K-12 Education on iPad overview
- Install Adobe Express on iPad
-
For students
- Access Adobe Express for Education as a student
- Adobe Express for Education students overview
- K-12 Education on iPad overview
- Download and install Adobe Express on iPad
- Adobe Express for K-12 Students overview
- Access Adobe Express student account
- Access Classrooms in Adobe Express
- Access, complete, and turn in assignments
- Comment on assignments
- Delete your Adobe Express student account
-
For educators
Adobe MAX
The Creativity Conference
Oct 14–16 Miami Beach and online
Adobe MAX
The Creativity Conference
Oct 14–16 Miami Beach and online
Adobe MAX
The Creativity Conference
Oct 14–16 Miami Beach and online
Adobe MAX
The Creativity Conference
Oct 14–16 Miami Beach and online
- Welcome to the Adobe Express User Guide
-
What's new
- New features
-
Get set up
- Learn the basics
- Access the app
- Preferences and settings
-
Create and edit videos
- Create videos
- Edit videos
- Organize clips
- Change file formats
-
Create and edit images
- Create and modify with generative AI
- Edit images
- Change file formats
-
Create and edit documents and webpages
- Create and edit documents
- Create webpages
- Create drawings
-
Create with templates
- Create templates
- Edit templates
-
Add effects to your designs
- Add audio
- Add animations
- Add text
- Add images and visuals
- Create QR codes
-
Organize your designs
- Arrange layers and pages
- Import assets
-
Work with other Adobe files
- Work with Photoshop and Illustrator creative assets
- Work with Acrobat
-
Share and publish
-
Share and collaborate
- Invite collaborators
- Copy files between accounts
- Comment on shared files
- Privacy and permissions
- Unpublish shared files
- Share designs as remixable templates
- Present a design
- Create TikTok videos and share them to TikTok Ads Manager
- Technical requirements for sharing videos to TikTok Ads Manager
- Share large files using WeTransfer
- Print and order designs
- Design and print using print-ready templates
- Design for prints
- Manage presentation pages
- Printing in Adobe Express FAQ
-
Schedule and publish content
- Media specifications
- Content Scheduler overview
- Connect Facebook
- Connect Instagram for business account
- Connect X (Twitter), Pinterest, LinkedIn or TikTok
- Generate captions for social media using generative AI
- Schedule and publish social media posts
- Create Shared Calendars
- Shared Calendar access and permission
-
Share and collaborate
-
Manage brands, libraries, and projects
- Create brands, libraries, and projects
-
Manage collaboration
- Edit roles in brands
- Apply your brand colors and fonts to designs
- Best practices to apply your brand colors and fonts
- Share brands
- Leave shared brands
- Custom fonts overview
- Add custom fonts to your brand
- Set brand style controls overview
- Share a template with controlled permissions
- Create from shared templates
- Share libraries
- Create new files, folders, brands, and libraries
- Share projects
- Move files, brands, and libraries
- Copy files, brands, and libraries
-
Adobe Express on mobile
- Get set up
-
Create and edit designs
- Create images with generative AI
- Create text effects with generative AI
- Insert objects with generative AI
- Remove objects using Generative fill
- Generate editable templates with generative AI
- Create and edit videos
- Explore templates
- Work with Photoshop and Illustrator assets
- Create and manage brands
- Delete files
- Import PDFs on mobile
- Share designs
- Troubleshoot
-
Troubleshoot
- Known and fixed issues
- File conversion issues
- Browser extension issues
- Projects issues
- Linked assets issues
-
Adobe Express subscription
- Free trials
- Subscription options
- Manage subscriptions
-
Adobe Express for education
-
For educators
- Adobe Express for Education overview
- Adobe Express for Education teachers verification
- School or district accounts overview
- Benefits of classroom accounts
- Personalize your education settings
- Create and access educator accounts
- Classrooms overview
- Create classrooms
- Add students to classrooms
- Manage classrooms
- Assignments overview
- Create assignments
- Share assignments
- Provide feedback on assignments
- Troubleshoot issues with assignments
- Assignments and classrooms FAQs
- Change email address for educator account
- Delete Adobe account
- Migrate projects to the latest Adobe Express for iPad
- Troubleshoot Adobe Express on iPad
- Adobe Express Classroom integrations
- K-12 Education on iPad overview
- Install Adobe Express on iPad
-
For students
- Access Adobe Express for Education as a student
- Adobe Express for Education students overview
- K-12 Education on iPad overview
- Download and install Adobe Express on iPad
- Adobe Express for K-12 Students overview
- Access Adobe Express student account
- Access Classrooms in Adobe Express
- Access, complete, and turn in assignments
- Comment on assignments
- Delete your Adobe Express student account
-
For educators
Add and customize shapes
Last updated on
Oct 4, 2024
Learn how to create custom shapes and use expressive borders in Adobe Express
-
-
Select Elements from the left panel and then select Shapes and Draw shape.
Tip:Select a pre-existing shape or choose Draw shape to create a freestyle shape in the focused drawing mode.
-
Select a Border style and Border Thickness to modify the appearance of your shape.
-
Select Done to save and return to the Shapes menu or select Cancel to discard changes.
-
Select the shape you want to edit.
-
Use the left panel to adjust the shape's Border style, Border Thickness, Fill, Border, and Opacity. You can also scale and rotate your custom shape, choose a Blend mode, add an Animation.
-
Select Download.
Note:
When you select Draw shape, you'll enter focused drawing mode. In this mode, layers and page properties are hidden, and most top header actions are disabled.
More like this
Adobe MAX
The Creativity Conference
Oct 14–16 Miami Beach and online
Adobe MAX
The Creativity Conference
Oct 14–16 Miami Beach and online
Adobe MAX
The Creativity Conference
Oct 14–16 Miami Beach and online
Adobe MAX
The Creativity Conference
Oct 14–16 Miami Beach and online
