Constrained ellipses and "subtract from selection"

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dale303
Apr 15, 2006
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I’m learning Photoshop CS in Windows and have grasped most of how to use selections but can’t seem to work out how to knock a perfect circular hole in a selection.

I can’t seem to get the ellipse tool to stay constrained when in "subtract from selection" mode. For some reason the usual ‘shift-drag’ doesn’t keep the ellipse circular.

It seems that every time I press ‘shift’, the mode changes from ‘Subtract from selection’ to ‘add to selection’ instead of constraining the ellipse like I would expect it to..

Any ideas as to why and how to fix?

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