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Okay, so I'm working on a new scene, a kitchen interior. I've actually modeled the whole house as far as the walls go, but I'm starting on the details in the kitchen first.

Anyways, I'm trying to create a map for the display of the stove and I have no idea how to create a circle in Photoshop with a border. Maybe this is a task more suited for Illustrator but I only have Photoshop. I use the Ellipse Tool, set it to Circle and draw from the center, make my little red circle, but from there I have no clue how to add a black border of a few pixels. Is this even possible, or do I have to make a red circle slightly smaller than a black circle and place it on top?

I knew how to do this back when I used PhotoDraw from Microsoft, but since they stopped making it about 6 years ago I figured it's finally time to move forward. I hope you can tell by how detalied this question is that I wasted way too much time trying to figure this out.

And for those of you who bothered to read this whole post I'm including a test rendering. It's upclose so I don't give away too much of the scene before I post it in the WIP section, and yes I know the knobs have a faceting problem but from farther away you won't ever notice, and yes I know it needs to cook longer.

Anyways, the circles are for the burner legend, any help would be appreciated.

(Long post)

Hey misterasset,

I'll try and break it down, short and sweet.

on a new layer do the following.

Select the eliptical marquee tool --> hold down the shift key --> drag out a marquee (holding shift will force the marquee to be a perfect circle).

Right click over the marching ants --> select stroke --> enter a pixel size for the thickness of the line --> select a color --> hit ok.

quick and dirty...

hope it helps

Luis

Luis beat me.
you can also access Stroke... via the Edit Menu
now fire up that stove..