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...)
#1
You'll have to draw the border and the fill separately.
Bob
#2
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?
#3
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.
#4
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
#5
Thats what I see in his thread also bob.
heathrowe
#6
" 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.
#7
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
#8
Well, Bob...
You can hardly expect a tech writer who thinks Photoshop's online documentation to be so useless to be any good withahem!specifics, can you?
;)
#9
Nope. <g>
Bob
#10