How can I cut an ellipse piece of a photo?

Hi there,

  To cut an image so that it has an ellipse shape, you would use the Elliptical Marquee tool.

  Open Photoshop, and open your photo file. Double click the photo layer in your Layers pallete to unlock the layer:

Once you have double clicked the layer, a dialog box will come up asking you to specify certain properties such as changing the layer name, opacity, etc. You can change these if you'd like, but for now we're going to leave them in their default settings. Click "Ok" to proceed.

Now that the layer is prepped and ready to be edited. Navigate to your toolbar. Find the Marquee toolbox, by default it should have the Rectangular Marquee tool set. To retrieve the Elliptical Marquee tool, click and hold down and a pop up window with more tools will appear. Select the Elliptical Marquee tool.

Now, click and drag on your image to make an Ellipse. You will get a selection area marked by a perimeter of "marching ants" around the Ellipse selection:

If you're on a PC, click CTRL + Shift + I to make an Inverse selection. If you're on a Mac, click CMD + Shift + I. This will select the outside area of the ellipse that we just drew with the Elliptical Marquee tool.

Now click the Delete key on your keyboard. This will cut out the rest of the image and leave you with an Elliptical cut of your image!

I hope this helps! Let me know if you need further clarification!