circling a face

[negritamartinez]

I have a class pic of 30 students and I need to circle the face of the person who owns the pic for a slide show so that it is clear who he was 30 years ago. I have tried a number of ways and none and mostly I end up with a color circle over the face. How do I do this, and can I do it without getting into layers? (Elements 4)

[Jeff Perry]

negritamartinez, I have PSE 6, but I will assume the same tools/steps apply.

Open a COPY of your image (never work on the only one you have), and use the circular marquee tool to draw a circle around the face.

Find the Stroke command in the menus, its probably under Edit.

Pick a size in # pixels for the width for the line, and a suitable color, and any of the "Location" choices will probably work as long as the circle is not too small, otherwise pick "outside". You may also have a "Transparancy" option you can set if you like.

Jeff

[frank abramonte]

Using the circle marquee tool drag a circle to the size you want and then go to Edit>Stroke
Enter the thickness you wish the circle to be and hit OK. Make sure that your foreground color is the color you want he circle to be.

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1ujPlLThNsxobMUajQcOo3UnoxpVFK_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1ujPlLThNsxobMUajQcOo3UnoxpVFK)

[negritamartinez]

There must be something wrong in my settings. I've done the marquee>stroke (outside) width 5, color black, mode normal, opacity 5 etc. procedure but when I press OK, the marching ants continue then I click outside of the photo and the marquee disappears. Could it be a setting not allowing the this to happen?

Yes, the problem was that the opacity was too low, I put it at 70 and my circle appears. GREAT!