: Solid bordered ellipse with transparent background in Photoshop? This has to be a silly question but I cannot see how, in Photoshop CS5, to draw a red bordered ellipse with a transparent fill

@Welton168

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This has to be a silly question but I cannot see how, in Photoshop CS5, to draw a red bordered ellipse with a transparent fill over a picture. I often find myself doing this to highlight an area of a screenshot when posting an image to StackOverflow or sending an email to IT support.

In Adobe Fireworks it is pretty easy:


Select the ellipse tool
Set the fill to transparent
Set the pen to red
Draw the ellipse




It is straightforward following the same steps in Microsoft Paint.



But in Adobe Photoshop the ellipse tool seems to only have one colour





I could draw the solid red ellipse and then draw another slightly smaller ellipse to mask out the central region but that seems too long-winded for what must be a commonplace simple task.

What is the speedy lightweight way to call out an area of a picture by plonking a solid bordered ellipse with a transparent fill on it in Photoshop?

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