I had a similar problem when I wanted to stitch in a straight line. Here's what I've learned to do. I get a selection that's real thin where I want my stitching to be. Then I run that square spaced out brush along where I want it. It's bigger than the line of selection so it works really well.

From there I figured out that for circles and other shapes I can create two or three of them. Now how do I make this make sense.

I'll make two circles. One of them I'll make slightly smaller. Then I use the magic wand to select the space between two circles. To do this, if I'm on the layer for larger circle, I click on it with the magic wand. I change my selction tools in the toolbar to subtract from selection. Then I go the layer with the smaller circle. I click the magic wand on it. This give me the space between them where I can use the brush to do whatever.

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