Distribute same objects Evenly around ellipse object

[Roccy]

How to distribute same objects Evenly around ellipse object?
Lets say I have 5 - 11 circle object and I want to draw them around one ellipse object evenly like on this picture. How to do that?

 

[ALB68]

Maybe, but this is better accomplished in Illustrator by using the Blend tool (but that's another subject). I personally don't know the answer to your question, but possibly someone else will chime in here. When you use the term "objects" that term eludes to vectors more so than bitmaps. PS can make paths etc that are vectors, but imho is not particularly good at manipulating them.

 

[hawkeye]

Alb68 is correct, Illustrator would be better suited. But I can think of two possible ways in Photoshop if you are making the objects. You could distribute them around a circle and then transform the circle into an ellipse. But this approach would also transform the objects too.
The second would be to use the paint brush with spacing to make the objects. Then make the ellipse with the pen tool and stroke it with the brush. Obviously it would take time to get the spacing right.

 

[rev]

1. Draw a polygon with a required number of equal sides (eg. in your case perfect pentagon/star: I used a star) beginning from the center of canvas, using option/alt + Shift to ensure the polygon grows proportionally from the center.
2. Draw a circle (shape tool: U) with no fill and only stroke, again proportionally from the center until the circumference meets the polygon: the polygon works as a equi-distance divider.
3. Select a ellipse tool (shape tool: U) and set the options as: FILL & STROKE ON, define px values for w and h to make a tiny dot (bigger than the line width of the large circle)
4. With the ellipse tool selected, click once near one of the circle-star cross points.
5. Once a tiny filled circle shape (dot) is created, CMD-t to turn on a free transform around the dot shape. Then, click inside the transform box, but do not select the center pivot point, and move the dot shape until the center pivot point are positioned at the circle-star cross point.
6. Repeat step 5 to position 5 dot shapes to each of the circle-star cross points.
7. Optional: Select all 5 dot shape layers and Cmd-E to collapse into one shape layer (possible in CS6, not sure in other versions).
8. Select all (or collapsed) dot shape layer AND the big circle shape layer, and link the layers together by clicking chain icon.
9. Cmd-t to free transform > change the shape of circle to an ellipse that you want (dots will also move together).
10. Place a new shape (spade in my case: with white fill and black stroke) with defined size at the option.
11. Cmd-t to free transform > move the shape, similarly to step 5, until the center pivot point is snapped to one of the dots along the big ellipse.
12. Repeat step 11 to place the same shape snapped to each of 5 dots along the ellipse.
13. Select all the 5 shapes (spades) and the big ellipse layers (and dots: this is optional) and link them together: maybe even generate a group
14. Now, you can use Cmd-t to free transform the 5 equi-distantly arranged shapes along the ellipse to different dimensions/angles, etc
Have a good day~
Rev