Creating shape layers

To create a new shape layer:

Select a shape tool or a pen tool, and click the Shape Layers button in the options bar.
To apply a style to the shape layer, select a preset style from the Style pop-up menu. (See Applying preset styles.)
To change the color of the shape layer, click the color swatch in the options bar and choose a color.
Set additional tool-specific options, and draw a shape. For more information, see Using the shape tools and Using the pen
tools (Photoshop).
To draw multiple shapes in a layer (Photoshop):
Select the layer to which you want to add shapes.
Select a drawing tool, and set tool-specific options.
Choose one of the following in the options bar:
Add to Shape Area to add the new area to the existing shapes or path.
Subtract from Shape Area to remove the overlapping area from the existing shapes or path.
Intersect Shape Areas to restrict the area to the intersection of the new area and the existing shapes or path.
Using a pen tool

Exclude Overlapping Shape Areas to exclude the overlap area in the consolidated new and existing areas.
This is the first actual drawing step; the first three only provided useful construction lines. At this stage, all remaining dots
represent places where the knot will intersect itself.
Hold down the Shift key and click and drag to the right with the Pen tool; extend the direction point line about 1/4 inch.
Keep pressing the Shift key, click about 1/2 inch above and to the right of the first anchor point, and drag up about 1/4
inch.
You’ve drawn an eye-pleasing arc — kind of a skateboard-ramp sorta thing.
Keep pressing the Shift key, click about 1/2 inch above the second anchor point (directly above the first anchor point),
and drag left about 1/4 inch.
You’ve drawn a lovely half circle. You’re actually more than halfway there.
With your left hand developing a cramp from holding down the Shift key, click about 1/2 inch to the left of the first
anchor point and directly opposite the second anchor point, and then drag down about 1/4 inch.
(You can probably guess where I’m going with this last click. . . .)
Click the first anchor point, drag to the right about 1/4 inch, and then (finally) release the Shift key.
Your creation is a perfectly lumpy circle! If your circle isn’t as round as you want, select the Direct Selection tool (the
hollow arrow) and tweak the points and direction points until the circle looks less lumpy.

Straight Segments
This is the first actual drawing step; the first three only provided useful construction lines. At this stage, all remaining dots
represent places where the knot will intersect itself.
Play "connect-the-dots" with adjacent dots (here, adjacent means diagonally adjacent; the sum of the absolute values of the
differences in their coordinates is one).
Don't connect the dots completely; stop just before reaching each dot. Remember that these dots are the crossings, and only
one of the knot segments is drawn at each crossing (the other one goes under). Crossings are dealt with in a later step.

How to Draw Curved Lines

Draw a full-sized circle using the circle drawing tool.
Add a layer on top of the circle you just drew.
Put another circle on top of the first circle you drew in the new layer using the circle drawing tool. This circle should be
smaller, and you might want to use a different color for distinction.
Select the first layer.
Use the magnetic eraser to trace the second layer while keeping the first layer selected.
Remove the second layer.
Open up the first layer.