Save And Reuse Photoshop Text As A Custom Shape

Step 1: Create Your Logo

Before we can save our logo, we need to create it, so let's do that. I'm going to create a very simple logo here for this tutorial, and I've already gone ahead and added my text to my document, as we can see below:

I'm going to apply a simple warp to the text to add a little interest to it. With my Type Tool still selected, I'm going to go up to the Options Bar at the top of the screen and click on the Warp Text icon:

This brings up the "Warp Text" dialog box where I can choose from some preset text warp "styles" (effects). By default, the Style option is set to "None", but I'm going to click on the down-pointing arrow to the right of the word "None" and select Wave from the list:

This gives me a "wave" effect with my text:

I'm just going to click on the Bend slider and drag it to the left to flip the wave horizontally:

Here's what my text now looks like after flipping the wave horizontally:

I'm going to use this now as my fictional logo, and even though it didn't take me a whole lot of time or effort to create it, I still don't want to have to recreate it every time I need to use it, so I'm going to save it as a custom shape, which I'll do next.