Drawing a circle

[jbutler]

Yes, that's right, just drawing a freaking circle. You wouldn't think a guy who\d been using PSP for years would have much problem with that.

I'm using pspx1. I want to draw a circle - actually a target - over a part of my picture. Problem is, I can't seem to widen the line. I draw a circle but the line is so thin its barely legible. There is a line width box on the tool options menu, but that's either rarkened, or, if I can change the numbers, the change makes no difference to the line width. What gives? I know I've done this before fairly easily in a past version of PSP, but I've been fooling around here for an hour and getting nowhere. Note, I just want the circle, not any fill. So I'm using pre-shapes

[wds937]

You should be able to change the line width using the Width control on the tool options bar, if you do this before drawing the circle. If the circle is already drawn, click the Pick Tool, click the circle to select it, right click on the circle, then select Properties.... From the dialog box that pops up, change the setting of Stroke width, then click OK.

[LeviFiction]

In addition to what wds937 said:

Your problem is that you're using the preset shape tool, assuming I'm understanding you correctly.

The ellipse preset shape works like the speech bubble, the star, the sun, they keep their own style (in this case a small stroke and no fill) unless you deselect the "Retain Style" in which case you can select the stroke width but it also takes on the properties in the materials palette.

So you'd have to turn off the background/fill (which will turn on the foreground/stroke if it's invisible) to keep the inside invisible and see the effects of the stroke. Also the effectiveness of the stroke is dependent on the size of the overall image.

Creating an ellipse with only a stroke is simple, use the actual ellipse tool and turn off the Background/Fill color in the materials palette. The stroke will remain and you can effect the stroke width.

But like wds937 said, the properties only apply to before you actually create the vector. But you can change the properties by using the pick tool and double clicking on the vector or in the layers palette by expanding the vector layer and double clicking on the object there.

[jbutler]

Thanks very much, guys!