stroke circle with dots

[soulcatcher]

is it posssible to make a circle and have it stroked with dots or dashes. if so how or where would i find that information I am using PSE6

thanks you all have been great

[Diana]

The only way I can think of is to use the Type tool to type some large periods, then use the Warp option, choose arc, move the Bend slider to the right to 100%, which will give you half a circle. Then duplicate the layer of dots and flip it horizontally using Image>Rotate>Flip Layer Vertical. Then use the Move tool to move the flipped half-circle into place to complete the circle. Merge the two half-circle layers, then resize to fit around whatever it is you want to stroke.

Diana

[ljameso1]

I suppose you could also use the eraser after stroking to make dots or dashes out of a solid line.

[Byron Gale]

I suppose it would be possible to have a layer filled with a pattern of dots, then use the stroked circle as a transparency mask on it. You'd end up with a cut-out ring of the patterned field.

Probably not what you've got in mind, though.

[Wendy]

Hi ...

This is one of those things that is really easy to do in Photoshop but difficult in Elements ... I would probably create one dot and then duplicate the layer and arrange the duplicates into a circle.

Or just keep single click with the brush tool to create the dotted circle.

As a guide to make it easier to do either of those just create a new layer above the image. Use the Elliptical Marquee to make a circle and then stroke the selection ...

Lower the opacity of this layer and use the shape as a guide to placing the dots :)

Wendy

[Jeff Perry]

Soul Catcher, using Wendy's suggestion as a starting point, if you find that you need the dotted line circle more than just once, one simple way to achieve it is to create a brush.

1. Open a new blank file 8.5X11 inches at 300ppi.
2. Using the Oval Marquee Tool, draw out a circle (hold the shift key down) about 3-4 inches in diameter.
3. Select a hard edge brush about 20 pixels (you can make it smaller or larger to change the relative scale between the circle and the size of the dots).
4. Change the brush color to black by hitting “D” to set default foreground to black
5. Zoom into your circle so it fills the screen
6. With the “marching ants” as a guide, click the brush at 12 o’clock” then at “6 o’clock” then at “3 o’clock and at lastly at “9 o’clock”.
7. Now fill in the space with more dots, spacing them equally between the 12 and 3, etc., until you have a complete circle of dots.
8. You can “draw” the dots on the inside, outside, or dead center on the marching ants, it doesn’t make a difference.
9. Once the circle of dots is complete, hit escape to deselect and get rid of the marching ants.
10. Select the Magic Wand Tool (W), set Tolerance to 1 (actually any setting will work, even 0), and make sure Continuous is NOT selected.
11. Click on one of the black dots (all of the dots should be selected)
12. Go to Edit>Define Brush From Selection…
13. Type a name for your new brush, like “Dotted Circle” and click OK

Now look at the bottom of your current brush pallet and you should see your brush. Select it, adjust the size bigger/smaller using the “[“ and “]” (brackets keys) and click once to drop a dotted circle where you want it.

Not perfect, but if you need a lot of resizable circles made from dots, this may serve the pupose.

Jeff

[TonyW]

If you happen to have Microsoft Word on the computer you can draw a circle there, format it with dotted lines (or dashes) and then drag it into a PSE6 document and drop it. It will appear as a new layer. Not perfect but it's easy to do:

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Would work with any other program you might have that supports drag and drop and will draw dotted circles.

Tony

[soulcatcher]

Thanks for all your advice I will try them all. Wendy I do have photoshop but do not know how to use it fully either. I bought this PSE thinking it would be easier to learn. How or where would I find this info in Photoshop

[MazG]

This technique was shown in the Aug/Sep 2007 Digital Scrapboking Magazine p. 112. I haven't tried the technique myself but I'll post the instructions here later today when I get a chance to either scan them or type them.

[MazG]

Ok, the goal of these instructions is to make a brush which is a circle made of little tiny circles (you can then stamp a big circle in the middle). It is not quite the stroke you asked for but will give similar results.

1. Select the brush tool and choose a hard round brush. Increase size as desired (I used 100px on a 12x12 canvas). Open brush menu and set spacing to 150%.
2. Position cursor at left side of canvas half way from top. Hold down shift key to constrain stroke to straight line and drag across canvas.
3. Select the move tool and click on the top middle handle of bounding box and drag up until height is 250% (this looks weird but is necessary). Enter to apply.
4. Select Filter, Distort, Polar Cordinates. Make sure Rectangle to Polar is selected and apply.
5. Stamp a big circle stamp inside or just leave as the dotted circle outline.
6. Select the circle, then Edit, Define Brush to save the selection as a brush.

Hopefully this is what you're looking for ;)

[soulcatcher]

I tried this and it works great and I also came up with a few other designs using this same technique as well thanks alot MazG