How to Set the Path in Ellipse
Adobe Photoshop's ellipse tool creates sphere shapes for multiple design functions. Photoshop allows you to make work paths for all of its shapes. You set the work path in ellipse by first clicking a button, but you further change the work path with the pen tool. With a work path, you change the shape of the ellipse, add text around the edges of the shape or connect multiple anchor points.
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Instructions
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Launch Adobe Photoshop and click "New." Set the size of the document to 1024 by 1024 pixels or larger. Set "Background Contents" to "Transparent." Click "OK."
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Click on the "Shape" tool on the toolbox on your left. Select the "Ellipse" tool.
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Move your mouse up to the options bar at the top. Select the button for "Paths." The path button is in between the "Shape" and "Fill Pixels" button. The "Paths" icon also resembles a pen tip in the center of a rectangle.
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Click and drag in the center of your document to create an ellipse with a work path. The perimeter of the shape is a solid gray line.
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Click the icon for "Pen" tool from the toolbox on the left. Right-click the ellipse and select "Add Anchor Point."
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Click the new anchor point and drag to change the direction of the work path. Play around with the pen tool by adding multiple anchor points. Modify and set the path in whatever directions you like.
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