Ellipse tool - Photoshop Tools

The Ellipse Tool creates elliptical shapes.We can also draw a circle with the help of this tool. If we press the Shift key while drawing we can get the perfectly round circle.

How to use Ellipse tool?


1.Choose the Ellipse tool
2.Position the pointer inside the work area and just click and drag.

Drawing modes:

To create vector shape layers click Shape layers button
To draw paths (shape outlines) click Paths button
To create rasterized shapes in current layer click Fill pixels

Options:

• Create new shape layer - to create every new shape in a separate layer
• Add to shape area - to create multiple shapes in the same vector shape layer.
• Subtract from shape area - to subtract shapes from the current shape layer.
• Intersect with shape area - to intersect new shapes with existing one in the same layer.
• Exclude overlapping shape areas - to subtract overlapping areas.