Creating a round photo

[stuartnorfolk]

Hi all

I know this might sound like a mad question, but I am new to Photoshop Elements (I have PSE 4 for Mac), but basically I want to create a CD image from an existing photo - so how do I create a circular crop as it were?

I want to be able to define the absolute size down to the last mm.

Many thanks,

Stuart

[kimi_boo]

Hi Stuart.

Use your elliptical marque tool to draw your circle. If you hold down your shift key it will make an exact circle.

You will now have your marching ants. Go to Select, Inverse.
Now hit Delete.

[Cmcburnett]

Stuart, welcome to the forum. Hopefully Kimi helped you out. Good luck w/your circle.

[stuartnorfolk]

Hi Kimi

Many thanks for your extremely helpful reply : ) I can now do circles!

BTW, in other apps I have used dragable rulers, where you can drag a line or guide to help in the precise alignment of an image. Is this possible in Elements as well?

Many thanks,

Stuart

[stuartnorfolk]

Thank you Cmcburnett

[cats4jan]

in other apps I have used dragable rulers, where you can drag a line or guide to help in the precise alignment of an image. Is this possible in Elements as well?


In Windows version of PSE4 -

the guide can be found in
view> grid

To change the parameters of how the grid is divided
edit> preferences> grid

[kimi_boo]

Go to View... select Ruler. :)

[stuartnorfolk]

Hi all

That's not quite what I was referring to.

The guides/rulers I was referring to are dragable/alterable lines.

I work with a piece of software called Freeway. In Freeway I go to the ruler, click and hold and a guide appears which I can drag to any point along my work. Does such a thing exist within PSE?

Regards,

Stuart

[TonyW]

Stuart: You can drag the top left corner down to set the 0,0 point on the ruler and if you look in the Info Palette you can get the X,Y coordinate measurements - so it's possible to draw a very precise circle (Set the origin, the Click, hold press Alt, drag and hold down Shift and you'll get a circle centred on the origin (the timing of the Click-Alt-Drag-Shift is sometimes a bit tricky but with practice it works fine)

Tony

[stuartnorfolk]

Many thanks Tony.

Stuart