How do I ‘cut out’ a circle from multiple photos?

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Jessie_Williams
Dec 15, 2006
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Hi there, I’m totally new to Photoshop and I suspect my question is a very basic one! But I can’t seem to work it out on my own….

I want to cut out a perfect circle from a number of photos and save them as individual jpegs so that I can paste them into a word document.

I can use the eclipse tool – but don’t know what to do from there.

Hoping for some guidance!

TIA

Jess
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John Joslin
Dec 15, 2006
Use the Elliptical Marquee tool

In the Options bar at the top, select Fixed Size and put in the dimension you want (Width = Height).

Draw the circle on your image where you want it; press Ctrl+J to put the selection on a new layer. Make a new empty image (Ctrl+N) of the size you want, using the resolution of your original, and drag the circle layer from the original into the new image. (Use the layers Palette.)
JW
Jessie_Williams
Dec 17, 2006
Thank you very much John. I couldn’t see the ‘options’ bar and ‘fixed size’selections for some reason, but I was able to make the rest of it work. I’ve decided the pics don’t have to be an exact match….Thanks again

Jess
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John Joslin
Dec 17, 2006
I couldn’t see the ‘options’ bar

Maybe you have an earlier version of Photoshop. It’s at the top, under the menus, if it’s there.

Glad you got it done anyway 🙂

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