I have a layer in my image with only a circle that I somehow drew.
I want to fill it with gray.
In Photoshop, I could select it, then adjust the stroke and fill -- but in Elements 14 I can't find the "arrow" I used to use in Photoshop to select something, so I could make changes.
Somehow I was able to draw the circle, and fill it with color - but now I can't find a way to select it to change things.
....very basic question.
Me, familiar with the software? Photoshop yes. Lightroom - yes. Elements - absolutely not.
I'm not really trying to do what you think I want to do - that was just an easy way to get an answer for what I really DO want to do, without typing for an hour.
My goal is to draw a Bullseye, with each "ring" set to a precise dimension. I want to put the largest ring on one layer. I want a smaller ring over it, and another even smaller ring in a higher layer, and finally a small "bull" at the center. The outermost ring will just be a black circle, with no fill. The next smaller ring will be a black line, with a black fill over it. The other, smaller rings, will just be a white line, which will show up fine over the black fill of the second largest ring.
This is an old target I took from a garbage can at the club, to compare with what I am trying to draw. Making this from Photoshop is so easy. I thought it was so simple I could do it in Elements, putting each "ring" on a layer above each other, then adding the text on a top level layer.
I can draw the circle. I can set the line width, and even the fill. The tools for this are listed in the "EDIT" menu. But if I leave that, layer, and come back to it later, those tools are lost. The only way I can move something, is to move the entire layer. I have a feeling that Elements doesn't recognize any of my shapes as an element - they are just pixels, located at some location. That would explain why I can't move them. So either I use Photoshop on my Windows laptop, or learn GIMP.
Photoshop is no longer a choice, as it's no longer for sale. I don't believe in "renting" software.
You can do this in Photoshop Elements. It is critical that you put each component on a separate layer. For drill, try this:
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