2 Replies Latest reply: Jun 8, 2011 8:53 AM by kenackr RSS

    CS3 Photoshop stroke not functioning on one image, Why?

    kenackr Community Member

      I'm running the CS3 design premium suite on a Mac Pro 8 core with 14 gig of ram & 3 TB of hard drives with Snow Leopard 10.6.7. Been using Photoshop 7 for about 5 years and never had this problem on that.

       

      I'm making an image in Photoshop CS3 to use as a logo on a website I'm building and all went well until I tried to put put a red stroke (1pxl) on 2 words of text. For some reason that I don't yet comprehend, the stroke is not taking. I tried opening a new window and all works well there, text & stroke wise. I have saved my work & shut down the computer a couple of times just in case there's something odd with the logo file.

       

      As I said earlier, I've never experienced this before in Photoshop 7. I did a search on the forum here & read the FAQ's where I got the impression there were a few other people who had a similar problem. All the work has been done in Photoshop and it blows my mind that I can't reproduce it on new files (tried for the last 2 hours). There's got to be some little gotcha that I'm not aware of that's messing me up. The file itself is a little over 100K so It can't be an out of memory error (I think).

       

      ANY help would be appreciated!!!!!

       

      Ken

        • 1. Re: CS3 Photoshop stroke not functioning on one image, Why?
          c.pfaffenbichler Community Member

          You mean the Layer Style Stroke?

          Could you post a screenshot with the Layers Panel visible?

          • 2. Re: CS3 Photoshop stroke not functioning on one image, Why?
            kenackr Community Member

            I'm not sure what I did this morning to undo the problem, but I finally achieved the desired result as follows:

             

             

            Screen shot 2011-06-08 .png

             

            I was following a tutorial on how to superimpose "fire" on an image and in getting to that point there were many duplicate layers with changes to blending layers, etc.  I went back and turned every layer effect on & off to see what would change on the image. When I found that certain effects were not making a difference (even though they were enabled), I discarded them to get to the "relatively" clean layer panel in the screen shot.

             

            There were certain effects in the tutorial that played with lighting on skin which were not needed for my purposes. I'll try it again when I'm trying to put fire on human skin, like in a wizard throwing a fireball (the actual tutorial).

             

            It's unfortunate that I wasn't able to track down the precise culpret that prevented the layer stroke for the text, but if you have ny thoughts by all means let me know.

             

            Thanks,

             

            Ken