Technical difficulties.

[thefelinepunk]

Hello friends of mine that are also PS CS2 users

Comments

[joecirca79]

are you trying to stroke the whole image? ...to frame something?

If so, set stroke to be inside.

[thefelinepunk]

Yes, like to add a border to the image. I'll try that.

I'm just confused because I haven't changed any of my settings.

[thefelinepunk]

Okay, you were right... the stroke was previously set to "outside". I did change it to "inside" though, and that did not fix the problem.

[joecirca79]

Depends what's on the layer. Either flatten all your layers first or
Go to the first layer >select all>edit stroke. Make sure you set position to inside. And of course, make sure
You set stroke to something dark and that it is thick enough. There shouldn't be an issue.

[thefelinepunk]

I've used this same method many many times before to make avatars and user icons and stuff, so I mean, I usually don't have a problem. I checked to make sure that the stroke was thick enough, and that it was a color that I would easily be able to see.

My problem lies in the fact that no matter what I do I can't get the damn stroke to APPEAR even though it says I laid it down. It's even more frustrating that I was able to add a border to the text layer, but not to the background image... and it wouldn't let me add one to the background image of a different project I was trying to do earlier this week, either.

[thefelinepunk]

Also, if I flatten the image, the "Layer Properties" option is no longer available.

[joecirca79]

FFFUUUUUUU!

Flatten image.
Control J (duplicates layer).
Select all. (on top, duplicated layer)
Go to edit.
Stroke.
Set position to "inside".

Make sure you set the stroke thickness to something visable which will be entirely based on what you set the PPI to. Just to make sure you aren't retarded, set it to bright pink and 300 pixels thick.