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Hello Alex and welcome to PSG.


(There are many ways to do things in Photoshop, this is one way.)


While simple, these types of effects require a basic understanding of selections. So let's start there.


The rule is that you can only work on the inside of a selection. A selection (or some call it a marquee) is identified by the marching ants.


So if I have a selection like the one below....

[ATTACH]67005[/ATTACH]


........and I make a swipe at the selection with the Brush Tool, I will only see the color inside the selection.

[ATTACH]67006[/ATTACH]


Taking the same selection as the first image above and inverting it like this.............

[ATTACH]67007[/ATTACH]


I now have marching ants on the original ellipse as well as the outside edge of canvas.

So now where will a brush stroke appear?

It will still always appear inside the selection like this.......

[ATTACH]67008[/ATTACH]


In order to make the effect like the one you asking about, you must first make a selection on your canvas.

Here I have used the Pen Tool to make the selection.

[ATTACH]67009[/ATTACH]


Then I used the Brush Tool to add in the color.

[ATTACH]67010[/ATTACH]


Hit Cmd/Cntrl + D to deselect............and your done.

[ATTACH]67011[/ATTACH]


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