Hopefully I can explain well enough what I'm wanting to do. I want a large circle with several rectangle pics in the circle with the edges cropped off in the shape of the circle. So the end result is a big circle but there are several pics in it. Make any sense at all?

I've got my circle layer and my rectangle layer but I don't know which should be on top. I'm assuming I'm supposed to "no fill" both layers. Also, how to I get the circle shape as my final thing- not the whole canvas?

Open a new canvas and the pics you want to use. Insert a circle/no line onto the canvas. Recolour it to medium grey so you can see what you're doing.
Select the Marquee tool/square. Uncheck "keep ratios". Mark out the first part you want a pic. Go to Effects/fill with colour or texture/picture. Double click on the pic and resize to suit. Mark out the next part of the circle and fill as above.

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Kim

Oh, and to save it as just a circle all you need to do is save as png. It might look like there is white behind it but that is only a blank canvas.

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Okay, I just tried it and for some reason using the marquee tool on the circle gave me a complete square instead of the rounded part.

So.........do this.........when you mark out the part of the circle you want go to Edit/Cut/Edit Paste. Now fill that pasted part with the picture.

Mark out the next part, edit/cut/edit/paste, fill with pic. etc etc til your circle is filled.

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OK- I've got my circle- no line- filled with grey. I selected marquee>square>uncheck shape proportions. Now- here is where I get lost. I put my cursor in the cirlce to make my square but I want the edges of the rectangle on the outside of the circle. Basically, I need a template that is a circle that has rectangle pictures in it. The pictures are cut off on the edges by the curve of the circle. I would rather make it a template so I can use it again. Make sense? Not much too me!

edit- ok you were replying at the same time so let me try the above

This is a quick test with the above instructions.

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YEAH!!! It worked. Thanks soooo much. I've been working on this for HOURS. I've even been on google looking for how to do this. So- to do a template for future use- what are the steps? Pretty please?