elipse tool

[marvinsnotes]

I am using PSE 5 my question is when using the elipse tool is it possible to rotate the elipsis shape. I know that I can move the shape around the image but can I rotate it at an angle?

thanks in advance for any help that you all can give me.

Marv

[ATR]

Have you tried Control T (Free Transform Shape) using the two sided rounded icon at the end of your cursor? That should get your the rotation that you are looking for?

ATR

[Rusty]

There is another way to do it, whether you want to use it depends on what you want to end up with.

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/12jABAxOJ7WtK8B9svwIC7Je7fAgDI_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=12jABAxOJ7WtK8B9svwIC7Je7fAgDI)

If you want to rotate the shape and the image, do what ATR said (the top example). If you want to rotate the shape but not the image...

Create a blank layer on top. Draw your oval and use Edit > Fill Selection (any color). Now rotate that filled shape. (the middle example)

Now go back to your image layer and Ctrl-J puts your selection, with the unrotated image inside) onto its own layer.

Rusty

[cats4jan]

or get Grant's Tools - one of the basic free tools allows rotation of selection

[ATR]

Rusty,

The procedure that you decribed is interesting, but.....

I need for you to fill in the gaps in my interpretation of the question:

1. Given a Background Layer (otherwise known as the image in this case)
2. Shape 1 Layer above the Background Layer (generated by drawing out an ellipse shape with the Ellipse Shape Tool).
3. Applying Control T (Free Transform Shape) to the active Shape 1 Layer, and then rotating the ellipse shape.

How then are we rotating shape AND image? You only rotate the shape????

Is there some confusion between what the user is doing: an ellipse selection with the Ellipse Marquee Tool and an ellipse shape with the Ellipse Shape Tool?

ATR

[Rusty]

I think the confusion may be on my part :)
I jumped to the conclusion that the marquee tool was being used, not a shape tool. My error.

You are, of course, exactly correct.

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1TekZMns3dae9GTDQZsFDdmbzzbb5R_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1TekZMns3dae9GTDQZsFDdmbzzbb5R)

Rusty