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Sometimes in digital scrapbooking you want an arrow to point to photo, embellishments or text. It is nice to know you can draw out this hidden tool and put arrows all over your digital scrapbooking projects!

Many people that use Photoshop Elements for digital scrapbooking don’t know about the built-in arrow tool, probably because the tool is not actually called the Arrow tool.

Here are the steps to draw one in Photoshop Elements:

Step 1: Select the Line tool.

Step 2: Go to the top of workspace to the Option Bar, and click on the black triangle (see red arrow) and a small arrowhead menu will appear.

Step 3: Click on checkbox to have the arrow be at the start or end of the line. Or select both to make a double headed arrow.

In this example I decide to have the arrow only at the end, so checked that box.

Step 4: To start out with keep the default width at 500% and the length at 1000% these settings are in regards to the percentage of the thickness of the line. After you have made your first arrow you might want to go back and see what other settings do to your arrow.

Also, keep the concavity option at 0% for you first test arrow. Then on your second try you might want to adjust this setting from the Concavity option. It goes from -50% to 50% as this sets the curvature of the widest part of the arrowhead.

Step 5: Type in weight of the line, try 20 px to start off with.

Step 6: Then pick out the color

Step 7: Draw the arrow!

Now you have an nice arrow, and an extra hidden tool that now you know about so you can make arrows any time you need it!

Enjoy!

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