Cutting a circle inside a circle

I'm trying to cut a circle inside another one but I cannot make the small one to fit symetrically inside the big one.

OK that was my stupid alter ego asking. It´s tooooooo simple!!!

well by your second post i cant really tell weither or not you figured it out or not, but if you didnt heres how i would go about doing it...

First you have your original circle... duplicate that layer by either draging it onto the new layer icon of the layers pallet or right click it and go to duplicate layer....

Next take the circle you just made, and free transform it by pressing CTRL + T, then hold shift... and drag one of the corners to scale it down...

Then when you have it to about the size you want the whole to be... link the two layers and get the move tool.... once you have the move tool you will see along the top (depending on what version of photoshop your useing) that there are some bars with lines going through them... align them vertically first... then click align centered.....

Then once you have that hold control and single click on the layer that has the smaller circle... so that it selects it... then click on the layer with the big circle and press the delete key or the backspace key... this should delete the part of the big circle that you have selected... (depending on your background color)

Then press CTRL + D to deselect the circle... then delete the layer with the small cirlce....



There is another way to do it that is alot faster and easier but sometimes doesnt work depending on the size of your circle...

Heres that method:

hold CTRL and click on the layer with the circle on it.... then go to..

SELECT > MODIFY > CONTRACT > then enter the # of pixels you want the to contract the circle by... then hit ok... then hit delete or backspace....

This method usually works for smaller cirlces, but onces you get to bigger cirlces it sometimes makes the inside turn out more like a diamond rather then a cirlce... which you probably dont want...


I hope this helped... :D

or you could make the circle..... control click on the layer that its in..... create a new layer.... go select - modify - contract...... enter in the amount of pixels you want to contract it by..... and fill it with the desired color...... i might of read this wrong, but i think thats wut you meant


::edit:: I never read the 2nd half of fusions post.... ooops :rolleyes: ::edit::