How to draw a circle without fill

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lijun1966
Oct 28, 2003
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Hi, everyone,

By using drawing tools, I can draw a circle with filled background. But how can draw a unfilled circle?

Thank you
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zippy2000
Oct 28, 2003
I assume you mean a circle with a stoke with no fill. There are more than a few ways of doing it:

I think this would be the easiest way:

1)Create a circle with the circle shape tool. The circle you will create will have a fill.

2)On your layer pallet, set the fill to 0%.

3)Then, Layer>Layer Style>Stroke. Specify the color and stroke weight and that should be it.

Of that doesn’t work, let me know. There is more than one way to skin this cat.

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Richard Chasin
Oct 28, 2003
Draw your circle, fill it, keep it selected, then from the menu: Select/Modify/Contract – if you set 1, border will be 1 pixel, 2 = 2 pixels, etc.

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Hi, everyone,

By using drawing tools, I can draw a circle with filled background. But
how can draw a unfilled circle?
Thank you
CG
Carlos_G_Najera
Oct 28, 2003
There is another alternative that I think will save you a couple of steps. Pick the Elliptical Marquee Tool and drag on your layer, holding the SHIFT key to get a perfect circle. The go to Edit-Stroke where you can select the width of the stroke as well as its position and color. Click OK and that’s it.

Carlos
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lijun1966
Oct 29, 2003
Thank you all.
It helps me a lot.
JR
John_R_Nielsen
Oct 30, 2003
Since there’s always at least three ways to do anything in Pshop, here’s a third way:

Instead of making a Shape layer, use the Shape tool to create a work path, select the brush and painting tool you want, and press Enter on the numeric keypad to stroke it. I think this works with the Alpha Enter key now, too.

Or you can do the same thing from the Paths palette menu.

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