help drawing transparent shapes

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ihate_photoshop
Aug 18, 2004
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All I want to do in Photoshop 7 is draw transparent ellipses with a solid color border. I’ve searched the Adobe site and the online help (and as a tech writer, I haven’t seen online help this useless since 1995). Where can I find the steps to do what should be a simple task? (I’m a Paint Shop Pro user at home and this product isn’t making me a convert so far…)

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BobLevine
Aug 18, 2004
You’ll have to draw the border and the fill separately.

Bob
Aug 18, 2004
Sooo much contention here.

Hater…

Choose the Elliptical Marquee Tool.

Drag out your ellipse.

Select a forground color.

Right-Click on the marching ants selection, and slide down the contextual menu to "Stroke…"

Should be obvious from there.

Happy now?
TK
Trista_Kobluskie
Aug 18, 2004
ihate photoshop,

Try this:

1. create a new transparent document
2. select the elliptical marquee tool
3. draw your elipse
4. menu: select > modify > border
5. type the number of pixels you want as a border
6. select the paint bucket tool
7. select a foregroud color that you like
8. fill the selected area with your color

That might be what you’re looking for.

Trista

<edit> phosphor’s way is faster. Just goes to show you that it would be difficult for Adobe to list the steps to every "simple" task that Photoshop is capable of in Help.
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BobLevine
Aug 18, 2004
I got the idea that only the fill should be transparent with the stroke solid.

But if I misunderstood then Phos’ way is better than mine.

Bob
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heathrowe
Aug 19, 2004
Thats what I see in his thread also bob.
heathrowe
Aug 19, 2004
" I got the idea that only the fill should be transparent with the stroke solid."

Ummm…what am I not getting here?

The steps I described will make an elliptical stroke with no fill.
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BobLevine
Aug 19, 2004
I read transparent to mean translucent.

This is just another example of why posters need to give SPECIFICS when posting questions. Besides, the OP seems to have disappeared anyway.

Bob
Aug 19, 2004
Well, Bob…

You can hardly expect a tech writer who thinks Photoshop’s online documentation to be so useless to be any good with—ahem!—specifics, can you?

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BobLevine
Aug 19, 2004
Nope. <g>

Bob

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