Ellipse Tool

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Carl J Baxter
Aug 29, 2003
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I want to choose an oval from a photo. I use the ellipse tool and place it on the image in an acceptable manner. However, the part I want turns grey and then when I try inverse, it says no pixels selected. It, however, doesn’t say how to select pixels. Feather is greyed out, any other options I have tried have been unsuccessful. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Please do not leave out ANY steps. Thanks.
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BobHill
Aug 29, 2003
Carl,

I suspect your image layer is BackGround only. Double click BackGround layer and convert it to a standard layer. Now apply your oval, Inverse and when you delete the background will be transparent (actually paper color, but show the checkerboard transparency display).

Bob
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Paul L UK
Aug 29, 2003
Carl

Sounds like you need to select the ‘Elliptical Marquee’ tool (M key) , up at the top of the toolbar. Then you will get the marching ants.

The tool you describe creates a filled ellipse.

Everything else should then work the way you are doing it.

Paul
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BobHill
Aug 29, 2003
I think you properly found the problem, Paul. I’m thinking selection tool and I believe you are correct, he’s using the Ellipse tool, which creates an object.

Bob

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