Nate Silva

How to draw a rectangle or oval outline in Photoshop Elements

This seems easy, but I always forget how to do it. Let’s say you have a picture and you want to highlight part of it by drawing a rectangle around one section. Like this:

Here’s how to do it with Photoshop Elements:

1. Choose the rectangular marquee tool (you can also use the elliptical marquee tool).
2. Draw a rectangle around the area you want to highlight.
3. From the Edit menu, choose Stroke (Outline) Selection…
4. Set the Width and Color, and press OK.

Then I used the horizontal type tool to add the text.