: How to make a selected area with a circular border? I'm using Photoshop CS5 My question has two parts to it: 1 How can I make a circular selected area with a blank border (no fill) border

@Reiling762

Warning, image heavy

I kind of understand your first question so that's all I'll attempt to answer for now, and please clarify if this is wrong, but here's how I see it:
You want to ONLY have the stroke on a circle, not the contents.

Two easy methods:

Method 1:

Circle marquee -> make your circle -> Select >> Modify >> Border -> Select amount -> Ok


Method 2:

(I prefer this method, it's cleaner)

Make a circle --> open layer styles --> add a stroke --> ok
Lower Fill to 0%, then you are only left with your stroke.



EDIT
I think I understand Question 1 better now.

So, to isolate the stroke, and then use the strokes selection to mask, do the following:

Layer -> Layer Style -> Create Layer

This makes the layer style, into its own separate layer.

Now, select the orange circle (ctrl+click the layer's thumbnail)

Then, select the black layer...


And now hit "delete" -- this will erase the black circle's innards.
Now, simply select the remainder of the layer, and use that as your mask.

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