Rectangle

We first select the “Rectangle” Tool in the Toolbox.
When we click and drag in our image, Photoshop will create a new Shape Layer in the “Layers” palette, but not only that, it will set all the settings and styles that we have set for the previous Shape Layer to the new layer.
If for some reason is not what you want, right click the circle layer, select “Copy Layer Style”, right click the rectangle layer and choose “Paste Layer Style”.
That is easy, but not what I want.

Because I want both layers to “flow” together.
For this, first select the “Exclude Overlapping Shape Areas” in the Options bar.
If not available, first select the “Vector Mask” thumbnail in the Circle layer.

Click and drag in your image to form a rectangle.
Should it be that you want to change the shape of the rectangle or circle that you have just signed, you can use the “Direct
Selection Tool” in the Toolbox to add points on the edge of the shape, which you can edit by clicking and dragging.

This is what we would have now:

Suppose we have the option “Exclude overlapping shape areas”, we could change to something else.
That’s possible, but not with the “Direct Selection Tool”, as it has no options.
For this we need to switch to the “Path selection tool” .
We use the “Path selection tool”, because we have four options:

Add to shape area

Subtract from shape area

Intersect shape areas

Exclude Overlapping shape areas

If you wish to combine the different relationships, click the “Combine” button in the Options bar.
If you like to still change or move separately, first select the white arrow (Direct Selection Tool), click anywhere outside the edges of the selected.
Then click the Alt-key, on the edge of the shape that you still want to move or change.

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