Ellipse Tool

when to use for circular frames, buttons, light blobs, or other elliptical shapes properties thickness stroke width style stroke pattern (solid / dashed / dotted) fill inner fill color when alpha is 0 only the stroke is drawn changing the rgb while alpha is 0 automatically raises it size width × height of the ellipse you can type exact numbers in the edit state how to use press ' o ' and drag the ellipse fits the drag rectangle hold ' shift ' while dragging to constrain to a perfect circle right after creation the shape enters edit state, so changing size or corner in the property panel updates the shape immediately you can also drag the bounding box handles or the rotation disc to transform the shape non destructively to paint or erase directly on top of a shape layer with brush tools, you have to rasterize the parametric layer into paint layer after rasterization , the layer's shape parameters can no longer be edited example