Geometric building blocks — banners, badges, underlines, and backgrounds in one click.
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Add a Shape — live workspace
Geometric building blocks — banners, badges, underlines, and backgrounds in one click. Every control below is live: configure, run, and watch the results.
Live workspaceReady
Try it: add a shape
No output yet. Configure the controls above, then press Run — your result appears here.
Onboarding checklist
Choose the design and the shape kind — rectangle, circle, triangle, line, star, or polygon.
Set the size, the fill color, and optionally a stroke color and width.
Polygons get a sides field: enter 3–12.
Click Add shape . The shape lands centered on your canvas and the live preview updates instantly.
Steps tick themselves off as you work — or tap any step to toggle it.
Add a Shape techniques
Geometric accents for modern layoutsFrames that pull the eye to the subjectDividers with real visual rhythmBadges and stickers that lift a design
Shapes are the quiet workhorses of graphic design: rectangles become banners and buttons, circles become badges and avatars, stars become sale stickers, and polygons become custom geometric accents. The Add Shape tool drops any of them onto your canvas in one click, with full control over size, fill, and outline.
Every shape is a real editable layer — not a flattened decoration. Fill it with any color, give it a stroke up to 200 pixels wide, and for polygons choose exactly how many sides you want: hexagons for tech badges, octagons for stop-sign callouts, triangles for arrows and pennants.
Shapes compose beautifully with the other layout tools on this site. Add a circle behind your headline text, then use the align tool to center them, or stack several shapes and fine-tune the stacking order with reorder-layer. From simple underlines to full geometric backgrounds, shapes are where designs start to feel designed.
How it works
Choose the design and the shape kind — rectangle, circle, triangle, line, star, or polygon.
Set the size, the fill color, and optionally a stroke color and width.
Polygons get a sides field: enter 3–12.
Click Add shape. The shape lands centered on your canvas and the live preview updates instantly.
Tips
Set stroke width to 0 to keep shapes clean, or add a bold outline for sticker-style graphics.
A wide, short rectangle in a brand color makes an instant text banner.
Star shapes are perfect for sale stickers and rating badges — drop one behind a price.
What it costs
Free on this site — and it can't be metered. Add a Shape uses no AI and runs entirely in your browser: no usage counters, nothing sent to our servers to bill. When credit metering arrives in the app, local operations like this one will never consume AI credits — only server-side AI generations will.
Frequently asked questions
Which shapes can I add?
Rectangle, circle, triangle, line, star, and polygon. Polygons let you choose the number of sides from 3 to 12 — hexagons, octagons, and more.
Can I make a hexagon?
Yes. Pick the polygon shape and set the sides field: 6 gives a hexagon, 8 an octagon. The sides field only appears when polygon is selected.
Can shapes have outlines?
Absolutely. Set a stroke color and a stroke width above zero and the shape gets an outline in that color — great for badges, frames, and callout boxes.
Where does the new shape appear?
The shape lands centered on your canvas by default. For exact placement, move or resize it afterward with the full photoaicompany editor, or layer several shapes with the reorder-layer tool.
Drag the handle — it glides with physics when you let go. Add a Shape, transformed in one pass.
Watch it work
See Add a Shape in motion
Drag the cards, scroll the scene — the tool explains itself.
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Drag the cards — they glide with inertia. Scroll — the blob morphs and the dot traces the flow.
The full walkthrough
How Add a Shape works, step by step
Add shapes to your photoaicompany design — rectangles, circles, triangles, lines, stars, and polygons — with fill, stroke, and size controls. Free.
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Design
The Design picker chooses which canvas receives the work. Keep one design per purpose — mixing campaigns in one file breeds confusion. Name designs by outcome (“Launch-Post-v3”), not by date; future-you searches by intent.
Pro tip: One design, one job. Split multi-purpose files early.
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Design controlThis is where you set design — changes preview live on the canvas.
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Live canvasEvery adjustment renders instantly — what you see is what exports.
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ResultHappy with it? The design updates in place, ready for the next step.
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Shape
Circles feel friendly, rectangles feel serious, and rounded corners split the difference. Use shapes to create rhythm: repeated badges down a page pull the eye forward.
Pro tip: Shapes at low opacity become premium textures.
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Shape controlThis is where you set shape — changes preview live on the canvas.
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Live canvasEvery adjustment renders instantly — what you see is what exports.
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ResultHappy with it? The design updates in place, ready for the next step.
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Fill color
Color carries meaning before words do: one accent color for actions, neutrals for everything else. The control keeps your palette honest. Never place body copy on a busy photo region — add a scrim or move the text to quiet space.
Pro tip: Limit yourself to three colors per design: background, ink, accent.
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Fill color controlThis is where you set fill color — changes preview live on the canvas.
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Live canvasEvery adjustment renders instantly — what you see is what exports.
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ResultHappy with it? The design updates in place, ready for the next step.
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Stroke color
Color carries meaning before words do: one accent color for actions, neutrals for everything else. The control keeps your palette honest. Never place body copy on a busy photo region — add a scrim or move the text to quiet space.
Pro tip: Check contrast by converting your design to grayscale mentally — if the text vanishes, the color failed.
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Stroke color controlThis is where you set stroke color — changes preview live on the canvas.
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Live canvasEvery adjustment renders instantly — what you see is what exports.
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ResultHappy with it? The design updates in place, ready for the next step.
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Width (px)
Dimensions decide where this design is allowed to live. A square post, a story, a thumbnail — each has its own grammar. Set dimensions before styling: reflowing a finished design is surgery, starting at the right size is hygiene.
Pro tip: Lock aspect ratio when scaling photos; free-scale only graphics.
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Width (px) controlThis is where you set width (px) — changes preview live on the canvas.
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Live canvasEvery adjustment renders instantly — what you see is what exports.
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ResultHappy with it? The design updates in place, ready for the next step.
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Height (px)
The control speaks pixels, but think in placements: where will eyes meet this, and how big will it be? Design at 2x the smallest size you’ll export — downscaling stays sharp, upscaling never does.
Pro tip: Lock aspect ratio when scaling photos; free-scale only graphics.
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Height (px) controlThis is where you set height (px) — changes preview live on the canvas.
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Live canvasEvery adjustment renders instantly — what you see is what exports.
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ResultHappy with it? The design updates in place, ready for the next step.
Know your workspace
Anatomy of the Add a Shape workspace
Five regions do all the work. Learn them once and every tool on this site feels familiar.
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Anatomy of the Add a Shape workspace
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ToolbarEvery tool lives here — pick one and the canvas listens.
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CanvasYour design, live. Drag, resize, and edit directly.
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LayersThe stack your design is built from — top wins.
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ExportOne click sends the finished design out as PNG, JPG, or PDF.
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PropertiesFine-tune whatever is selected, right where you work.
Made with Add a Shape
This is what Add a Shape output looks like in the wild — photographic, detailed, finished.
Level up
Add a Shape techniques that look professional
Four field-tested techniques, each shown on real photography. Steal them all.
Squint test everything.Blur your vision: whatever still reads is your true hierarchy — fix the rest. Apply this inside Add a Shape today — the improvement is instant.
Design the system, not the page.Styles, spacing, and components that repeat become a language — speak it fluently. Try it on your next Add a Shape project and compare the result.
Steal structure, not style.Borrow the layout logic you admire, then dress it in your own voice. Make it part of your Add a Shape routine.
Start from the message, not the decoration.Write the one sentence this design must communicate, then build everything in service of it. Your Add a Shape work will show the difference immediately.
Avoid the traps
Three mistakes to avoid with Add a Shape
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Tiny text on busy photos
Small type disappears into photographic detail. Fix: grow the size, add a soft scrim behind it, or move the copy to a quiet zone.
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Decorating before messaging
Effects applied before the words are final get redone. Fix: lock the copy first, style second.
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Ignoring the safe zones
Platforms crop edges and cover corners with UI. Fix: keep critical content inside the central 80%.
End to end
A complete Add a Shape workflow
Five moves, start to shipped. This is how the work actually flows.
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Start in the editor
Open a blank canvas or a template — Add a Shape works on anything with pixels. The tool never asks you to start over.
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Do the core move
Run Add a Shape the way the walkthrough above shows. Get the big decision right before touching details.
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Refine with a second tool
Pair it with All tools — tools compose, and two simple moves beat one complicated one.
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Check it on a phone
Most designs are consumed on phones. Preview small, fix what breaks, then continue.
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Export and ship
Export in the format your destination wants, keep the master design, and move on to the next one.
Shot on real photography
Add a Shape — every visual on this page is a real photograph, not a placeholder.
Good to know
More Add a Shape answers
What’s the single most useful tip for Add a Shape?
Set stroke width to 0 to keep shapes clean, or add a bold outline for sticker-style graphics.
What do beginners get wrong with Add a Shape?
A wide, short rectangle in a brand color makes an instant text banner. Start simple, then layer on complexity once the basics feel automatic.
Is Add a Shape really free?
Yes — Add a Shape is free to use in your browser, and your work saves to your account. Premium plans add AI credits, team features, and higher export limits; the tool itself never holds your design hostage.
Visual guides
Every fact, visualized
Ten detailed infographics — every number real, every label earned. Built for Add a Shape, only on this page.
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Live telemetry
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Complete guide
Everything Add a Shape can do
The full capability picture — features by plan, every control explained, real use cases, and the spec sheet.
Feature availability
Every capability of this tool, and which plan includes it.
Capability
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The design and the shape kind — rectangle, circle, triangle, line, star, or polygon.
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The size, the fill color, and optionally a stroke color and width.
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Polygons get a sides field: enter 3–12.
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Add shape. The shape lands centered on your canvas and the live preview updates instantly.
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Control map — every field, explained
Each control on this page, and what it actually does when you run the tool.
Control
What it does
Design
Choose the design and the shape kind — rectangle, circle, triangle, line, star, or polygon.
Shape
Star shapes are perfect for sale stickers and rating badges — drop one behind a price.
Fill color
Set the size, the fill color, and optionally a stroke color and width.
Stroke color
Set the size, the fill color, and optionally a stroke color and width.
Width (px)
Set stroke width to 0 to keep shapes clean, or add a bold outline for sticker-style graphics.
Height (px)
Set this control, then run the tool — the canvas updates live.
Stroke width (px, 0 = none)
Set stroke width to 0 to keep shapes clean, or add a bold outline for sticker-style graphics.
Sides (polygon, 3–12)
Polygons get a sides field: enter 3–12.
Use it for — Add a Shape in real work
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Badges and seals behind headline text
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Color-block backgrounds for quote cards
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Arrows and pointers in how-to graphics
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Frames around profile photos
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Dividers between content sections
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Polygons as abstract art elements
Spec sheet
ShapesRectangle, ellipse, triangle, polygon, star, arrow, line
Polygon sides3–12, adjustable
FillAny color
Stroke0–40 px, any color
SizingExact width/height in px
FreeUnlimited
Keyboard reference
Keys
Action
Scope
Ctrl/⌘ + Z
Undo the last change
Browser-standard
Ctrl/⌘ + Shift + Z
Redo
Browser-standard
Tab / Shift+Tab
Move between fields in order
Browser-standard
Enter
Activate the focused button
Browser-standard
Esc
Close dialogs and menus
Browser-standard
Delete
Remove the selected layer on canvas
Editor
Add a Shape — made visual
Twenty living mockups of Add a Shape, generated for this page only.
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The Add a Shape canvas, reimagined
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Rethinking Add a Shape from scratch
The Add a Shape stock library
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