How to crop a circle

I don’t think one can crop a circle. Images can only be rectangles, I think. I’ve gotten the cropped effect with transparency. You select your oval area, copy and paste into a new file with a transparent background. Save in a file format that accepts transparency. Or, you could select your oval area, then select inverse, and fill with the background color you will be using on your layout. Everything in the rectangle outside the oval shape disappears.

"Young, Josephine" wrote in message

Can you tell me how to crop a circle?

I know how to crop a square and a rectangle.
But I do not know how to crop a circle or ellipse or arc.
Thank you. Jo

Thank you for your reply. Actually what I want to do and crop and cut a bunch of donut shape images from a photo.
Can you tell me how to select the "oval area" to remove the image outside the OD (outside diameter)?
Can you tell me how to select the "oval area" to remove the image inside the ID (inside diamter)?
Thank you for your advise. Jo

"2real4me" wrote in message

I don’t think one can crop a circle. Images can only be rectangles, I

think.

I’ve gotten the cropped effect with transparency. You select your oval

area,

copy and paste into a new file with a transparent background. Save in a

file

format that accepts transparency. Or, you could select your oval area,

then

select inverse, and fill with the background color you will be using on

your

layout. Everything in the rectangle outside the oval shape disappears.

"Young, Josephine" wrote in message

Can you tell me how to crop a circle?

I know how to crop a square and a rectangle.
But I do not know how to crop a circle or ellipse or arc.
Thank you. Jo

Use elliptical marquee tool and hold the shift key down to select multiple oval areas together.

To keep the oval areas and discard the remainder of the image, copy your multi-selection of ovals, open a new image and paste the selection. You will have only your oval cutouts and nothing else.

To discard the oval areas and keep the remainder of the image: After you have made your multiple-ovals selection, select "inverse". Then copy the inverted selection, open a new image and paste. You will have the image minus the oval cutouts.

"Young, Josephine" wrote in message

Thank you for your reply. Actually what I want to do and crop and cut a bunch of donut shape images from a photo.
Can you tell me how to select the "oval area" to remove the image outside the OD (outside diameter)?
Can you tell me how to select the "oval area" to remove the image inside

the

ID (inside diamter)?
Thank you for your advise. Jo

"2real4me" wrote in message

I don’t think one can crop a circle. Images can only be rectangles, I

think.

I’ve gotten the cropped effect with transparency. You select your oval

area,

copy and paste into a new file with a transparent background. Save in a

file

format that accepts transparency. Or, you could select your oval area,

then

select inverse, and fill with the background color you will be using on

your

layout. Everything in the rectangle outside the oval shape disappears.

"Young, Josephine" wrote in message

Can you tell me how to crop a circle?

I know how to crop a square and a rectangle.
But I do not know how to crop a circle or ellipse or arc.
Thank you. Jo

Use elliptical marquee tool and hold the shift key down to select multiple oval areas together.

To keep the oval areas and discard the remainder of the image, copy your multi-selection of ovals, open a new image and paste the selection. You will have only your oval cutouts and nothing else.

To discard the oval areas and keep the remainder of the image: After you have made your multiple-ovals selection, select "inverse". Then copy the inverted selection, open a new image and paste. You will have the image minus the oval cutouts.

"Young, Josephine" wrote in message

Thank you for your reply. Actually what I want to do and crop and cut a bunch of donut shape images from a photo.
Can you tell me how to select the "oval area" to remove the image outside the OD (outside diameter)?
Can you tell me how to select the "oval area" to remove the image inside

the

ID (inside diamter)?
Thank you for your advise. Jo

"2real4me" wrote in message

I don’t think one can crop a circle. Images can only be rectangles, I

think.

I’ve gotten the cropped effect with transparency. You select your oval

area,

copy and paste into a new file with a transparent background. Save in a

file

format that accepts transparency. Or, you could select your oval area,

then

select inverse, and fill with the background color you will be using on

your

layout. Everything in the rectangle outside the oval shape disappears.

"Young, Josephine" wrote in message

Can you tell me how to crop a circle?

I know how to crop a square and a rectangle.
But I do not know how to crop a circle or ellipse or arc.
Thank you. Jo

Thank you for your reply.
Can you tell me is there any way I can make this oval as circle and set the exact diameter?
Thank you. Jo

"2real4me" wrote in message

Use elliptical marquee tool and hold the shift key down to select multiple oval areas together.

To keep the oval areas and discard the remainder of the image, copy your multi-selection of ovals, open a new image and paste the selection. You

will

have only your oval cutouts and nothing else.

To discard the oval areas and keep the remainder of the image: After you have made your multiple-ovals selection, select "inverse". Then copy the inverted selection, open a new image and paste. You will have the image minus the oval cutouts.

"Young, Josephine" wrote in message

Thank you for your reply. Actually what I want to do and crop and cut a bunch of donut shape images from a photo.
Can you tell me how to select the "oval area" to remove the image

outside

the OD (outside diameter)?
Can you tell me how to select the "oval area" to remove the image inside

the

ID (inside diamter)?
Thank you for your advise. Jo

"2real4me" wrote in message

I don’t think one can crop a circle. Images can only be rectangles, I

think.

I’ve gotten the cropped effect with transparency. You select your oval

area,

copy and paste into a new file with a transparent background. Save in

a

file

format that accepts transparency. Or, you could select your oval area,

then

select inverse, and fill with the background color you will be using

on

your

layout. Everything in the rectangle outside the oval shape disappears.

"Young, Josephine" wrote in message

Can you tell me how to crop a circle?

I know how to crop a square and a rectangle.
But I do not know how to crop a circle or ellipse or arc.
Thank you. Jo

On the marquee tools options bar:

Fixed Aspect Ratio to set a height-to-width ratio. Enter values (decimal values are valid) for the aspect ratio. For example, to draw a marquee twice as wide as it is high, enter 2 for the width and 1 for the height.

Fixed Size to specify set values for the marquee’s height and width. Enter pixel values in whole numbers.

I copied the above instructions from Photoshop Help under "Using the Marquee Tools." I hope this gets you started.

"Young, Josephine" wrote in message

Thank you for your reply.
Can you tell me is there any way I can make this oval as circle and set

the

exact diameter?
Thank you. Jo

"2real4me" wrote in message

Use elliptical marquee tool and hold the shift key down to select

multiple

oval areas together.

To keep the oval areas and discard the remainder of the image, copy your multi-selection of ovals, open a new image and paste the selection. You

will

have only your oval cutouts and nothing else.

To discard the oval areas and keep the remainder of the image: After you have made your multiple-ovals selection, select "inverse". Then copy the inverted selection, open a new image and paste. You will have the image minus the oval cutouts.

"Young, Josephine" wrote in message

Thank you for your reply. Actually what I want to do and crop and cut

a

bunch of donut shape images from a photo.
Can you tell me how to select the "oval area" to remove the image

outside

the OD (outside diameter)?
Can you tell me how to select the "oval area" to remove the image

inside

the

ID (inside diamter)?
Thank you for your advise. Jo

"2real4me" wrote in message

I don’t think one can crop a circle. Images can only be rectangles,

I

think.

I’ve gotten the cropped effect with transparency. You select your

oval

area,

copy and paste into a new file with a transparent background. Save

in

a

file

format that accepts transparency. Or, you could select your oval

area,

then

select inverse, and fill with the background color you will be using

on

your

layout. Everything in the rectangle outside the oval shape

disappears.

"Young, Josephine" wrote in message

Can you tell me how to crop a circle?

I know how to crop a square and a rectangle.
But I do not know how to crop a circle or ellipse or arc.
Thank you. Jo