Shapes
Create clean and professional designs with the Shapes tool in Play Digital Signage. Easily add rectangles, circles, lines, arrows and more, then fully customize color, size, border and effects.
The Shapes feature in Play Digital Signage allows you to add clean geometric shapes to your slides. It’s a powerful design tool for creating backgrounds, dividers, highlights, call-to-action buttons, frames, and visual separators.
- Open a slide in the editor.
- Click the Shapes button in the toolbar.
- Choose one of our shapes:
- Rectangles & Squares
- Circles & Ovals
- Triangles
- Once added to the slide, you can fully customize each shape:
- Change fill color and border color
- Adjust border thickness and style
- Modify opacity
- Add and customize shadow
- Resize and rotate with pixel precision
- Set alignment (maximize, left, center, right, top, middle)
- Move layers up or down
- Lock the shape to prevent accidental changes
Shapes are vector-based, meaning they remain perfectly sharp at any size or resolution. They are especially useful for creating modern layouts, section dividers, colored backgrounds, buttons, or framing other content like text and images.
In the dropdown, you’ll find a square, a circle, and a triangle.
- Alignment – Maximize, left, center, right, top, middle, and lock
- Color – Pick a color for your shape or use the color picker
- Layer – Move your shape up or down layers
- Rotate – Rotate your shape
- Positioning – Manually adjust the placement of your shape pixel by pixel
- Sizing – Manually adjust the size of your shape pixel by pixel
- Shadow – Add shadow and shadow color to your shape
- Stroke – Change the stroke color and thickness of your shape
How do I match the color of my shape?
In the settings, you’ll find a color picker next to where you usually pick a solid color. Click the color picker, then the color you want. (Note that this only works within the canvas.)
Can I lock the position of a shape?
You can lock any object you have in your content. Locking an object ensures that the object stays where it’s supposed to be, and can not be resized or removed. Read more about Locking Objects.
Get started designing your content
Most people think designing content for digital signage is super difficult, but if you can use Powerpoint, you can also create and design your own content in our editor.