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Adobe Photoshop Assignment

13. Stroke

"Stroking" an image or selected piece of an image refers to putting an outline around it

1. In the Tools Pallette, click the foreground color (red box, overlay at right) to pull up the Color Picker Pallette
2. Click a blue color and hit Okay.
3. Note that the front box sets/shows foreground color, back box sets/shows background color. Click small double-arrow (circled in blue in overlay) to toggle colors between fore and background
4. In imagename.psd, highlight your entire image using the Marquee Tool
5. Hit Edit Stroke Atl+E+S, then enter Width of 1 px and Location Inside. Then hit the enter key or Okay. Stroke uses the foreground color as default; note that you can also adjust the stroke color in the Stroke Pallette
6. Hit Ctrl+C to copy the image
7. Click to assignment_photoshop.psd; have original image at top, as explained in curves assignment
8. Hit Ctrl+V to paste the image into assignment_photoshop.psd
9. Use the Move Tool to position the layer you just created at the bottom of the image
10. File Save for Web (Alt+Shft+Ctrl+S) as assignment_photoshop_stroke.jpg
11. FTP assignment_photoshop_stroke.jpg to the photoshop_assignment subfolder in your images folder on your Web server (example of finished curves stroke file)
12. Proceed to sharpen

For more info:
In Photoshop, hit F1 (for Help), click Index, click S, scroll down to Stroke Command [1]

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