Making a circle help! Hi I am trying to place a photographic image in a circle elements 11. Keep getting legged up with inverse and other tools. Managed to do this once but turned out...

big d Loc: Rossendale Lancashire

Hi I am trying to place a photographic image in a circle elements 11. Keep getting legged up with inverse and other tools. Managed to do this once but turned out to be a reverse image ?does anyone know an easy way to achieve this task ? PS the easier the better cheers yours crap on computers Dave

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Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Here are some notes someone gave me for PSE 12:

Crop tool - cookie cutter/other (circle).
Feather = 1 px.
Perform crop.
Click your mouse into the empty background with magic wand selection tool. Use paint bucket to fill background with color of choice.

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Searcher Loc: Kent, England

Alternative method: To place an image in a circle:

Open PSE11
Open the image
File > Save as (new name)
Control + J to copy the layer
click the eye on the Background layer to make it invisble
Select the Elliptical Marquee tool
Set Feather to zero
Aspect to Normal
Hold down Shift and drag the marquee over the area to be encircled.
Move the circle into position using the arrow keys on your keyboard
To enlarge/decrease the size of the circle Select > Transform (use the handles with the shift key to alter)
Select > Inverse
Now hit the Delete key and your image will be in the circle with a transparent background.

big d Loc: Rossendale Lancashire

Searcher wrote:

Alternative method: To place an image in a circle:... (show quote)

Thanks Searcher for info ! but still having a few problems . Can not select feathering as faded out so is the inverse option ? Not sure were the Aspect option is located Thanks will keep soldiering on!

Searcher Loc: Kent, England

OK, a blow by blow illustrated guide. If you followed above, I think your tools may need resetting.

Screenshot1 one shows the whole image, and the tools used,
Screenshot2 shows the finished image, in the tools adjustment pane at the bottom, go to the right hand side, you will see 3 very small symbols. A ? mark, a text panel and an arrow pointing downwards. Click on the text (the middle one - and choose Reset tool).
Now try it, the feather and aspect tools should be OK to use.

Image in the PSE11 frame showing elliptical tool

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Finished image, showing toolbar at the bottom

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dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

Searcher, you are a National Treasure of Information. What you do in explaining and showing screen shots is what UHH should be about. Kudos to you for the technical humanitarianism.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

Searcher, you are a National Treasure of Information. What you do in explaining and showing screen shots is what UHH should be about. Kudos to you for the technical humanitarianism.

kitcar Loc: Liverpool.Merseyside. UK

big d wrote:

Hi I am trying to place a photographic image in a circle elements 11. Keep getting legged up with inverse and other tools. Managed to do this once but turned out to be a reverse image ?does anyone know an easy way to achieve this task ? PS the easier the better cheers yours crap on computers Dave

I can only say about PS as I use this to PP film negs.
Copy your image. "Photoshop" - Paste on new page - Rectangular Crop - Image (menu) - Rotate Canvas = Flip Horizontally

R.G. Loc: Scotland

You could use your existing image to determine exactly where you want the centre of the circle to be, then crop the original image to a square crop with the centre of the square exactly where you want the centre of the circle to be. You would need to lock the cropping aspect ratio to 1:1 and drag the corners to get the desired framing.

Then when you add the circle, it should be exactly where you want it to be. All you should have to choose is diameter and possibly feathering.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

big d wrote:

"Keep getting legged up..."

Must be an English expression. Never heard it before, but I get the idea.

AZNikon Loc: Mesa, AZ

I did not know this. I subscribed today, thanks for the tip, Bob

Linda From Maine wrote:

Here are some notes someone gave me for PSE 12: br... (show quote)

big d Loc: Rossendale Lancashire

Searcher wrote:

Alternative method: To place an image in a circle:... (show quote)

Thanxs Searcher for coming to my rescue , eventually managed to do crop.

big d Loc: Rossendale Lancashire

Linda From Maine wrote:

Here are some notes someone gave me for PSE 12: br... (show quote)

Thanxs Lynda from Maine for your help.

big d Loc: Rossendale Lancashire

R.G. wrote:

You could use your existing image to determine exactly where you want the centre of the circle to be, then crop the original image to a square crop with the centre of the square exactly where you want the centre of the circle to be. You would need to lock the cropping aspect ratio to 1:1 and drag the corners to get the desired framing.

Then when you add the circle, it should be exactly where you want it to be. All you should have to choose is diameter and possibly feathering.

Cheers RG for your help !

big d Loc: Rossendale Lancashire

kitcar wrote:

I can only say about PS as I use this to PP film negs.
Copy your image. "Photoshop" - Paste on new page - Rectangular Crop - Image (menu) - Rotate Canvas = Flip Horizontally

Thanks Kitcar for your help!