This tutorial will show you an easy way to create a circle in Adobe Illustrator.

Things You Should Know

  • To create a circle in Adobe Photoshop, you'll use the Ellipse tool, which you'll find on the left toolbar.
  • After creating a circle, you can specify its dimensions by clicking the Transform tab and entering your desired width and height.
  • You can fill the circle with a solid color, gradient, or pattern, as well as change the color and thickness of its border.

Steps

  1. 1
    Create a new circle by using the Ellipse Tool. Type the size of the circle you want in the Options box.
  2. 2
    You can change your circle size by go to Transform>change a size in Width and Height box.
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  3. 3
    If you don't mine about the dimensions, you can change a size by click at a circle and you'll see a transform guide, by this, hold the Shift key and adjust the size by use a transform guide
  4. 4
    This example shows you a circle with the fill set to “none” and color as “stroke.”
  5. 5
    This example shows you a circle with fill set to “color” and stroke set to “none.”
  6. 6
    This example shows you a circle with fill set to “color” and color set to “stroke.”
  7. 7
    This example shows you a circle with fill set to “none” and a gradient color stroke in Radial mode.
  8. 8
    Finished.
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