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Originally Posted by Skiddlydiddly  And do you mean you're just clicking and dragging, trying to get the ellipse to line up? (shift and alt will constrain the ellipse and keep it centered) |
This is what I was doing, and while it would work it seemed like the took would get finicky when I started to get out to the bounds of the picture and started to jump around a little. So if I would drag out to 150 or 200 the thing seemed like it was almost hesitant to move that far because the side boundaries would exceed the frame. Trying to get outside 200 yards on the Par 5's seemed almost impossible. 1/2 the time, it seemed like it would not end up landing where I wanted. Also, I am by no means a pro in PS. I have a tablet PC and also have a Wacom Tablet which I am yet to set up since changing to a Tablet PC. Although when I was playing around I was using the mouse. Maybe I should set up one of the others and try. Maybe it is just the process I was using to test it out and the Wacom could resolve the issue. I also should mention I have OneNote, which I have used very little up to now, and it seemed like a good place to store and work with the data. Although I didn't really see many tools for circles and such.
I guess I was just thinking it may be easier if there was some method click on one point then the other through other means, although maybe it was an issue with my setup. Never had any similar issues with PS, although to be honest I have rarely used the ellipse tool or at least in that nature.
Our sprinkler heads are about every 25-30 yards, so while it could be somewhat cluttered, with a thin line on an expanded view, then condensing it down, it actually gives me the info I need. Alot of the other points I am simply labeling with numbers and letters and having a separate explanation page. So I would almost have a solid diagram even if I only did 50 yard circles. Plus I think with my familiarity with the course, I am recently spending alot of time dialing in my distances inside 100, which is sometimes poorly marked and guesstimated at best. I really don't carry the GPS around that much inside 60 yards, so I also thought this would be a way to dial those in on memory over a short time.
So in a sense, it will probably end up a little cluttered, but in doing so it will likely give me the information I would want. Not that I would expect to be able to sell something similar in nature, where it almost looks like a childs doodle.
Although seeing it all in relation to an actual Geo photo makes it easier to picture.