.. meta:: :description: Krita's ellipse tool reference. .. metadata-placeholder :authors: - Wolthera van Hövell tot Westerflier - TPaulssen - Santhosh Anguluri :license: GNU free documentation license 1.3 or later. .. index:: Tools, Ellipse, Circle .. _ellipse_tool: ============ Ellipse Tool ============ |toolellipse| Use this tool to paint an ellipse. The currently selected brush is used for drawing the ellipse outline. Click and hold the left mouse button to indicate one corner of the ‘bounding rectangle’ of the ellipse, then move your mouse to the opposite corner. :program:`Krita` will show a preview of the ellipse using a thin line. Release the button to draw the ellipse. While dragging the ellipse, you can use different modifiers to control the size and position of your ellipse: In order to make a circle instead of an ellipse, hold the :kbd:`Shift` key while dragging. After releasing the :kbd:`Shift` key any movement of the mouse will give you an ellipse again: .. image:: /images/tools/Krita_ellipse_circle.gif :align: center In order to keep the center of the ellipse fixed and only growing and shrinking the ellipse around it, hold the :kbd:`Ctrl` key while dragging: .. image:: /images/tools/Krita_ellipse_from_center.gif :align: center In order to move the ellipse around, hold the :kbd:`Alt` key: .. image:: /images/tools/Krita_ellipse_reposition.gif :align: center You can change between the corner/corner and center/corner dragging methods as often as you want by holding down or releasing the :kbd:`Ctrl` key, provided you keep the left mouse button pressed. With the :kbd:`Ctrl` key pressed, mouse movements will affect all four corners of the bounding rectangle (relative to the center), without the :kbd:`Ctrl` key, the corner opposite to the one you are moving remains still. With the :kbd:`Alt` key pressed, all four corners will be affected, but the size stays the same. .. versionadded:: 5.0 If you hold :kbd:`Ctrl` and :kbd:`Alt` keys while drawing, the ellipse will be rotated around the marked corner of the bounding rectangle. If used with holding :kbd:`Shift` key, a circle will be rotated around the marked corner. Tool Options ------------