How Create Shape Outline

How do you create the outline of a shape,solid, dotted or dashed, e.g. an empty rectangle or circle,
Something like these:
I need these to be unfilled outlines, the interiors empty, i.e. see-through.
Thanks

JacquesBDA wrote:
My apologies, gourav5341, I neglected to say that I'm running CS2, PS version 9.0. Selecting the Shape tool in that version doesn't bring up a set of Stroke Options, and I can't find a "no fill" option anywhere
I did wonder.
Select the rectangular shape tool, and in the options bar near the left hand end, use the drop-down and select Path.
Drag out a rectangle the required size.
Select the Type tool and nice fat font like Arial Black.
Hover the cursor over the path until the normal Type cursor changes to:
Put your finger on the minus key, and hold till you have a dozen or so dashes.
OK them, and double click to select them again.
Now open the Character panel and adjust the tracking — which looks like:
...to give you the required spacing. Also adjust font size and weight etc.
Now just hold down the dash key till your path is full.
You can also fill the work path with a brush shape if you have a particular dash in mind.

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