On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 20:52:09 +0100
in alt.graphics.photoshop
"gerald" muttered something like this:
I can’t work out how to draw a circle on a photo without it being filled in. Can’t find it in the manual and all I seem to be able to do is draw a circle with a solid fill. I need to pot a ring around a face in a crowd, and I’m running out of time.
The other suggestions will work, but this will too.
Use the Elipse Tool with the tool set to Shape Layers and make a circle wherever you want it. Then…
– Hold down CTRL to turn your curser into the Path selection tool
– Click on the circle you just made to select it
– Release CTRL
– Hold down ALT and hit CTRL+T
– Release all keys
– Now, hold down ALT+Shift and grab a corner of the Transform box and adjust it down so it’s just a tad bit smaller than your starting circle.
– Release the mouse button, release all keys. Hit Enter.
– Now in the tool option bar (the bar below the normal menus) there is a button labelled "subract from shape area (-)", click on it and that should make your circle into a ring.
This is different from the other methods in that this ring is made with vector shapes not pixels.
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