Use Marquee tool to draw an ellipse over a photo

I am trying to write a user's guide. I take screen shots and then bring them into Photoshop elements. In previous versions I was able to use the Marquee tool to draw an ellipse over a portion of the screen I wanted to discuss. See below: It was very easy to do. Now I am using PE 8 and I cannot seem to do it.

Thanks for your help.
I tried it but really don't like the results. See below:
the ellipse is soft and washed out. Compare it with the one I was able to do with the previous version of PE:
which is crisp and has that little open flourish at the right side.It looks like a drawn image. Much more professional looking.

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Amazing though that when I called the Swedish support, the guy just laughed because of my old version and said he was unable to help.. I explained my problem anyway, since I thought it can't be that different between versions, but NO. He was not interested in helping me.. Makes me wonder how some people can keep their jobs..
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Make sure the feather value in the Rectangular Marquee options bar is set to 0 px, as shown below:
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