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.

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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.

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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.

Add a Shape

Go to Playlists
Open a playlist and find the slide where you'd like to add a shape
Click Shapes
Pick the circle, rectangle, or triangle

Change a Shape

Go to Playlists
Open a playlist and find the slide where you'd like to add a shape
Find your shape or add it to your slide, then click to mark it (You'll now see the setting on the right side of your screen)
In Color, you can change the color of the shape
In Layers, you can move the shape up and down the layers; for example, if you'd like it to become a background for an image, you can move it behind the image.
In Rotate, you can rotate the shape
In Positioning, you can fine-tune the position of the shape
In Sizing, you can fine-tune the size of the shape
In Shadow, you can add shadows to your shape
In Stroke, you can add a stroke, also referred to as an outline.

Remove a Shape

Go to Playlists
Open a playlist and find the slide that has the shape you'd like to remove
Click to mark the shape
Click Remove or hit backspace on your keyboard

Options

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
On Click (Jump to) - Open the dropdown and pick a slide you'd like to go to when the shape is clicked (Touch optimized)

FAQ

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.

Can I add animations to shapes?

Yes, animations work great with any shape.

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.

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