How to draw a Circle without a Fill in Photoshop

The Step-By-Step to draw a Circle without a Fill

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STEP ONE- Add A New Layer.

1. Start by adding a new Layer to put the circle on.

To do that go to the Layers panel and click on the Create a New Layer icon.

2. That adds a new blank Layer above the Background Layer that we can put our circle on.

STEP TWO- Draw A Circular Selection.

Use the Elliptical Marquee tool to make a Selection around your subject by clicking-and-dragging diagonally as you hold down the Shift key.

Holding down the Shift key will constrain your Selection to a perfect circle.

STEP THREE- Add A Stroke Around Your Selection.

Now all we have left to do is to add a stroke to our Selection.

Go up to the Edit menu and choose Stroke (Outline) Selection... by clicking on it.

The Stroke dialog box will appear.

In the top section of the dialog box choose the Width and Color for your stroke.

From the middle section of the dialog box choose the location of your stroke relative to your Selection line.

In most situations the location wont matter much on a round Selection. However if you have a square Selection you want to choose "inside" as the location to get nice square corners.

For our lesson we wont make any changes to the bottom section (labeled Blending) of the dialog box.

Next click OK to close the dialog box and accept the changes.

And that's all there is to it, just three easy steps!

Here's a look at the final result as below!