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[desibarbossa]

Hello all. I'm sorry to ask such a common question, but I've been trying to get my font to have an outline like this icon made bysweetphaex

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[kibethsbark]

PSP has a stroke feature for text (just not in the same player as PS):

[kibethsbark]

Er, and that's under the Text tool palette (I keep my tool palettes docked at the top of my screen. If it were floating, it'd probably look something like this:

[desibarbossa]

I tried using that method first. I was less than impressed with the results :-\

[kibethsbark]

Mm, yeah, that's worse. :/ Maybe try duplicating your text layer, and making the bottom of the two the colour you want the stroke to be (while leaving the stroke on?)... though, I'm not sure that'd work either since the stroke looks fuzzy too.

Is your anti-alias set to sharp? (I'm trying to reduplicate the fuzziness and I can't, but that's really the only thing I can think of, which probably isn't much help at all.)

[wifely]

That's what always happens to me when I try these tuts meant for PS that say to change the stroke width. :/

I have no idea how or why it is so funky, so I am anxiously awaiting more answers to this post!

[sky_queen3]

Err, now I'm not sure if it's possible in PSP but with Photoshop there's an option to make the stroke be centered, outside or inside. If there's something like that, try outside or whatever your version would be...

[nomadicwriter]

Yeah, the stroke feature in PSP is pretty craptastic. It's fixed on inside stroke so that it covers up part of the text rather than sitting outside of it, so it's useless for any text small enough to fit in an icon. It'd look fine at font size 72 or something where losing a few pixels off the edge of the text won't damage the look of it, but for tiny text it's horrible