Please help on stroking path

Hope this helps

The stroke tool has always been a weird one for me as well. The best way I know of dealing with it is the path palette. After you draw the path, it will appear as a layer in the path palette. On the upper right of the palette is an arrow pointing right. If you click on it, it will open a menu with "stroke path" as one of its options. Click it and your path will be stroked. Now at this point if you go to edit>stroke, everything should work fine. I don’t know why or how or whatever. But it works. To get rid of the path, drag the path layer to the garbage can. Good luck

"nesredep egrob" <Long. -31,48.21 Lat. 115,47.40> wrote in message

Should be so simple, but not for me.
I use the pen to create a path and name it so as not to lose it. Then I wish to stroke the path to make it visible for printing. I work according to the bible and also have help from Classroom in a book to no avail. I select the path using the direct select, then I go to the path options and find the stroke to subpath to be greyed. There seems to be no way to change that. Another way I have tried is to select a brush and drag the path down to the stroke icon – again no results, except once and I do not know what I did.

What I am trying to do is to make some visiting cards. I like to cut them to perfection from an A4 photopaper so I need to put in a markers as the corner markers for the guillotine – I feel like going to buy the card instead – dead subborn, I keep trying and will let you know if I succeed.

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The paintbrush you want to use must be selected before you can stroke a path. After selecting the path you need to click on the brush. You do not need to delete the path to turn it off, just click anywhere in the path palette away from the layer.

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:46:05 GMT, "Interested" wrote:

Hope this helps

The stroke tool has always been a weird one for me as well. The best way I know of dealing with it is the path palette. After you draw the path, it will appear as a layer in the path palette. On the upper right of the palette is an arrow pointing right. If you click on it, it will open a menu with "stroke path" as one of its options. Click it and your path will be stroked. Now at this point if you go to edit>stroke, everything should work fine. I don’t know why or how or whatever. But it works. To get rid of the path, drag the path layer to the garbage can. Good luck

"nesredep egrob" <Long. -31,48.21 Lat. 115,47.40> wrote in message

Should be so simple, but not for me.
I use the pen to create a path and name it so as not to lose it. Then I wish to stroke the path to make it visible for printing. I work according to the bible and also have help from Classroom in a book to no avail. I select the path using the direct select, then I go to the path options and find the stroke to subpath to be greyed. There seems to be no way to change that. Another way I have tried is to select a brush and drag the path down to the stroke icon – again no results, except once and I do not know what I did.

What I am trying to do is to make some visiting cards. I like to cut them to perfection from an A4 photopaper so I need to put in a markers as the corner markers for the guillotine – I feel like going to buy the card instead – dead subborn, I keep trying and will let you know if I succeed.

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SmyLee wrote:
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I use the pen to create a path and name it so as not to lose it. Then I wish to stroke the path to make it visible for printing. I work according to the bible and also have help from Classroom in a book to no avail. I select the path using the direct select, then I go to the path options and find the stroke to subpath to be greyed. There seems to be no way to change that. Another way I have tried is to select a brush and drag the path down to the stroke icon – again no results, except once and I do not know what I did.

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Once you have your brush selected just hit Enter on the numeric (right side) keypad. That’s all there is to it. Edit>Stoke has nothing to do with this BTW.

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On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 07:55:52 -0500, SmyLee wrote:

The paintbrush you want to use must be selected before you can stroke a path. After selecting the path you need to click on the brush. You do not need to delete the path to turn it off, just click anywhere in the path palette away from the layer.

As I work I comment in Notepad – here are the results

open photoshop
Select New
Center display, for tidyness
select pen tool
remove tick in Auto/Delete (in the tools option at the top) click somewhere to the left of middle
Hold down shift to create a line horizontally, I want a hoz line click somewhere to the right and then release shift
Select colour for foreground
Select brush
Control click somewhere on the canvas to get rid of the pen anchors click on line with direct selection Tool to select
Open paths menu and see that ‘Duplicate Path’,’Make work path’,’Fill’,’Stroke’ and ‘Clipping paths’ all seem greyed, close menu Run mouse along and see that the third, fifth and sixth button are alive and well but the essential one, the second button is greyed and unusable.

I think I have followed instruction to the n’th degree. Where do I go wrong, please

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On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:15:38 +0800, nesredep egrob <Long. -31,48.21 Lat. 115,47.40> wrote:

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 07:55:52 -0500, SmyLee wrote:

The paintbrush you want to use must be selected before you can stroke a path. After selecting the path you need to click on the brush. You do not need to delete the path to turn it off, just click anywhere in the path palette away from the layer.

As I work I comment in Notepad – here are the results

open photoshop
Select New
Center display, for tidyness
select pen tool
remove tick in Auto/Delete (in the tools option at the top) click somewhere to the left of middle
Hold down shift to create a line horizontally, I want a hoz line click somewhere to the right and then release shift
Select colour for foreground
Select brush
Control click somewhere on the canvas to get rid of the pen anchors click on line with direct selection Tool to select
Open paths menu and see that ‘Duplicate Path’,’Make work path’,’Fill’,’Stroke’ and ‘Clipping paths’ all seem greyed, close menu Run mouse along and see that the third, fifth and sixth button are alive and well but the essential one, the second button is greyed and unusable.

I think I have followed instruction to the n’th degree. Where do I go wrong, please

B.Pedersen Latitude -31,48.21 Longitude115,47.40 Time=GMT+8.00 If you are curious look here http://www.mapquest.com/maps/latlong.adp

OK, I have cracked it. Something not too complicated got in the way. I had a layer where the path was set up. When I tried to stroke that, it managed to close all the buttons I needed.
I went back to the layer palette and switched to background and all the buttons were available and indeed the stroking occurred to my satisfaction.
I am not happy that I cannot reconstruct the error but if I do I shall let you know.

Thanks all.

B.Pedersen Latitude -31,48.21 Longitude115,47.40 Time=GMT+8.00 If you are curious look here http://www.mapquest.com/maps/latlong.adp