Trying to create a perfect circle in line art…

J wrote:

I know Photoshop is not a vector tool like Illustrator is, but I was wondering…

Fonts are vector-based. As long as you don’t rasterize them, they can be stretched to any size. You can even convert them to shape so they retain all their flexibility without requiring having the font installed on the computer.

I assume that the Eliptical Marquee Tool is also vector-based until you use somekind of fill instrument (like the paint bucket). The selection was technically line art, but the fill wasn’t. Once you deselect, you are left with filled pixels.

So my question is… is it possible to tell Photoshop to keep the circle I created via the Eliptical Marquee Tool as a shape… and stroke it using the layer effects? All I need is a perfect circle to finish my logo. I realize I should have used Illustrator for this, but I’d really like to finish this in Photoshop, and the only thing missing is a perfect circle.
Can I create a perfect circle in Photoshop and leave it as line art, without going through all my fonts and looking for a perfect "O" (because even if I found one, I’d have no control over the thickness of that "O").

Why don’t you use ‘shapes’? Chose the ‘ellips’ tool and keep the shift key pressed. That makes it a perfect circle.

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J wrote:

I know Photoshop is not a vector tool like Illustrator is, but I was wondering…

Fonts are vector-based. As long as you don’t rasterize them, they can be stretched to any size. You can even convert them to shape so they retain all their flexibility without requiring having the font installed on the computer.

I assume that the Eliptical Marquee Tool is also vector-based until you use somekind of fill instrument (like the paint bucket). The selection was technically line art, but the fill wasn’t. Once you deselect, you are left with filled pixels.

So my question is… is it possible to tell Photoshop to keep the circle I created via the Eliptical Marquee Tool as a shape… and stroke it using the layer effects? All I need is a perfect circle to finish my logo. I realize I should have used Illustrator for this, but I’d really like to finish this in Photoshop, and the only thing missing is a perfect circle.
Can I create a perfect circle in Photoshop and leave it as line art, without going through all my fonts and looking for a perfect "O" (because even if I found one, I’d have no control over the thickness of that "O").
Thanks!

The Elliptical Marquee tool is NOT a vector based tool, but the Elliptical Shape tool is.

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On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 12:19:36 -0400, "J" scribbled:

I know Photoshop is not a vector tool like Illustrator is, but I was wondering…

Fonts are vector-based. As long as you don’t rasterize them, they can be stretched to any size. You can even convert them to shape so they retain all their flexibility without requiring having the font installed on the computer.

I assume that the Eliptical Marquee Tool is also vector-based until you use somekind of fill instrument (like the paint bucket). The selection was technically line art, but the fill wasn’t. Once you deselect, you are left with filled pixels.

So my question is… is it possible to tell Photoshop to keep the circle I created via the Eliptical Marquee Tool as a shape… and stroke it using the layer effects? All I need is a perfect circle to finish my logo. I realize I should have used Illustrator for this, but I’d really like to finish this in Photoshop, and the only thing missing is a perfect circle.
Can I create a perfect circle in Photoshop and leave it as line art, without going through all my fonts and looking for a perfect "O" (because even if I found one, I’d have no control over the thickness of that "O").
Thanks!

Hold down the shift key to constrain the proportions of the marquee tool then stroke it.

Voivod wrote:

On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 12:19:36 -0400, "J" scribbled:

I know Photoshop is not a vector tool like Illustrator is, but I was wondering…

Fonts are vector-based. As long as you don’t rasterize them, they can be stretched to any size. You can even convert them to shape so they retain all their flexibility without requiring having the font installed on the computer.

I assume that the Eliptical Marquee Tool is also vector-based until you use somekind of fill instrument (like the paint bucket). The selection was technically line art, but the fill wasn’t. Once you deselect, you are left with filled pixels.

So my question is… is it possible to tell Photoshop to keep the circle I created via the Eliptical Marquee Tool as a shape… and stroke it using the layer effects? All I need is a perfect circle to finish my logo. I realize I should have used Illustrator for this, but I’d really like to finish this in Photoshop, and the only thing missing is a perfect circle.
Can I create a perfect circle in Photoshop and leave it as line art, without going through all my fonts and looking for a perfect "O" (because even if I found one, I’d have no control over the thickness of that "O").
Thanks!

Hold down the shift key to constrain the proportions of the marquee tool then stroke it.

That will give you a circle, but not a vector based one. As mentioned earlier, you should use the Shape Tool rather than the Marquee Tool.

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In article <432d939e$0$74846$>,
"J" wrote:

I assume that the Eliptical Marquee Tool is also vector-based until you use somekind of fill instrument (like the paint bucket). The selection was technically line art, but the fill wasn’t. Once you deselect, you are left with filled pixels.

This is incorrect on two counts.

First, the Marquee tool is not vector based. A selection is by its very nature a raster object. A "selection" is nothing more than a black and white raster image where black areas are not selected and white areas are. When you go into Quick Mask mode, you are actually looking directly at the selection.

Second, the Paint Bucket tool is not the Photoshop fill tool, though many newbies mistakenly believe that it is. Photoshop does not have a Fill tool. To fill a selection in Photoshop, you hold down the ALT key (Mac: OPTION key) on the keyboard and press the Backspace or Delete key.

The Paint Bucket tool is not a fill tool; instead, it is a combination of the Magic Wand and the Fill command. When you click on your picture with the Paint Bucket,m this is what happens:

1. Photoshop looks at the color of the pixel you clicked on.

2. Photoshop fills that pixel with the foreground color.

3. It moves out in all directions, continuing to fill with the foreground color as it goes, until it runs into a selection edge OR it runs into a pixel that is a different color from the one you clicked on. Then it stops.

What the Paint Bucket does is identical to what happens if you click with the Magic Wand, then use the Edit->Fill command on the selection that the Magic Wand makes. The Paint Bucket *is not* the general way to fill a selection with color. The way to fill a selection is to press ALT-Backspace on your keyboard.

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