If you chose Center, only one half of the 3-pixel border will show. A Different Stroke. A stroke is also useful within an image, say to highlight a geographical feature within a landscape.
For practice, you can use your original image, or you can browse over to the NASA Web site and copy your own planetary photo. Instead of using the Select menu, click the Rectangular Marquee tool. Use it to draw a rectangle on the photo. Select Stroke from the Edit menu. Set the stroke size and color. This time, you can set the location outside the selection if you wish.
Again, leave the blending options at the default. Stroke A Layer. Specifies whether to place the outline inside, outside, or centered over the selection or layer boundaries. Enter an opacity value or click on the arrow and drag the slider. Strokes only areas containing opaque pixels on a layer. Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy.
Fills and strokes Search. Photoshop Elements User Guide. Select an article: Select an article:. On this page Use the Paint Bucket tool Fill a layer with a color or pattern Stroke outline objects on a layer. Applies to: Photoshop Elements. Use the Paint Bucket tool. Choose a foreground color. Select the Paint Bucket tool in the toolbox. Set options in the Tool Options bar, as desired, and then click the part of the image you want to fill.
You can specify any of the following Paint Bucket tool options:. All Layers. Fill a layer with a color or pattern. Specify a foreground or background color. You'll see the options for the Stroke appear in the middle column. First, change the color of the stroke by clicking on the color swatch in the middle of the dialog box, which will bring up Photoshop's Color Picker. Choose a different color from the Color Picker. I'll choose an orange color.
Click OK when you're done to exit out of the Color Picker. You'll see the color swatch change to the color you've chosen:. Once you've chosen a new color for your stroke, change the Position of the stroke to Outside to move the stroke outside of the letters.
You can leave the size of the stroke the same. Click OK when you're done to exit out of the Layer Style dialog box, and you'll see that you now have two strokes around your letters.
The original stroke the red one is on the inside of the letters, and the new one the orange one that we just added is on the outside. By changing the position of the two strokes, we've prevented them from overlapping each other, allowing us to see both of them at once:.
There's no need to stop with just two strokes, especially since adding more of them is just as easy! When you're done, click back on the original text layer to select it. We're going to again change the color of the stroke, and this time we're also going to increase the size of it.
You should now have three text layers in the Layers palette the original plus two copies above it , and the original text layer should be selected. Double-click on the layer effects icon on the right of the original text layer in the Layers palette to bring back the Layer Style dialog box, just as we did a moment ago, and select Stroke from the bottom of the list on the left to access the Stroke options:.
When the Layer Style dialog box appears, change the color of the stroke by once again clicking on the color swatch and selecting a new color from the Color Picker. I'm going to select red again, the same color that was used for my original stroke.
Click OK to exit out of the Color Picker when you're done. The color swatch will change to the color you've chosen:. Once you've chosen a new color, go up to the top of the Stroke options and increase the Size of the stroke. My stroke is currently set to a size of 6 px, which is the same thickness as the previous stroke. The position of the stroke is set to Outside, also the same as the previous stroke. And since the previous stroke is sitting on a layer above the layer I'm currently working on, this means that the previous stroke is completely blocking my new stroke from view in the document.
To make my new stroke visible, I'll need to increase it's size. I'm going to increase it to 16 px:. We now have not one, not two, but three separate strokes around our text, and we can keep adding more if we want by continuing to duplicate the original text layer, selecting it again in the Layers palette, going back to the Stroke options, choosing a new color for the stroke, then increasing the size of the stroke until it's visible around the outside of the previous strokes.
The nice thing about this effect is that you can always go back and change the look of it any time you want simply by clicking on the layer effects icon on the right of the layer in the Layers palette to bring back the Layer Style dialog box, selecting Stroke from the list on the left of the dialog box, then changing the stroke options.
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