PSE5: How to add red "bullets" to a photo?

[mikedigi]

I have a photo of a driftwood sculpture and I wish to add a red dot or "bullet" of a specified diameter to each piece of driftwood that I have just re-glued using an experimental glue. Cannot find this in Help or in Scott Kelby's book - can you help please?

[Wendy]

Hi Mike ...

If the dot is large then you could create a new layer above the image then use the Elliptical Marquee to create a circle create and fill the selection with red.

If the dot is fairly small then you could just use a hard edged brush :)

Wendy

[frank abramonte]

Mike, you can also get a red dot by typing Option+8 (mac) Alt+8 (win) in any type font with red as your foreground color.
Change the point size to get the size dot you want.

[Bayla]

Frank,

ALT + 8 gives me a red square with a white circle in the middle - you'd have to select the circle and fill it with red to get a plain square bullet point....ALT+7 is a plain round bullet point.

I type ALT+0149 to get a circular red bullet point.

Oh, and you have to use the numerical keypad on the right, not the numbers above the qwerty bit of the keyboard.

Bayla

[frank abramonte]

Thanks for the update, Bayla.
I looked up the PC key for Option and thought it would do the same.

[mikedigi]

Thanks to you all for all your suggestions. If I go the apparently simple route and create the red dot by typing Alt+7 or Alt+0149, how do I get several of those on to the photo? Do I use a 2nd layer (sorry, haven't done layers yet). Perhaps I'll have to use one of Wendy's suggestions after all?

[Wendy]

Hi Mike ...

If you create a new layer for each one then you will be able to move them into place using the Move Tool. To create a new layer just do Layer>New>Layer :)

... and if you do use the Paint Brush to do them then its still best to create a new layer for the dots (although you can do all the dots on the same layer if you use that method)

Wendy :)

[mikedigi]

Thanks Wendy, the further explanation is helpful . . .

Mike