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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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[willfully]

I go to layer style > stroke > pick colors and pixel width and opacity. It's actually pretty simple, really. I have CS3 but I think it's mostly applicable to Photoshop in general.

[desibarbossa]

Hmm. Maybe I'm incredibly slow, or blind, or both, but I've yet to figure out how layer style would translate into PSP format. My screen looks like this when I select the layer dropdown -

[willfully]

Oh, my bad, I think of PSP as Photoshop, not Paint Shop Pro (although that actually makes more sense >.>). I have no experience with PSP X, but from that list, I'm thinking that Properties might be the same thing? I could be totally wrong, though. :(

[littlemike]

Actually it looks like you have it hidden by the layers dropdown. See where it says stroke width? Look to the left of that. Now I use Photoshop so I couldn't tell you for sure, but when I googled it said it was under "Styles" if that means anything to you. Obviously I use stroke too ;)

[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]

OK, just quickly wanted to show what happens to me. It SEEMS like maybe it just won't work if the text isn't big enough. :/

I use PSP 9. Ignore the craptasticalness of these, please!

[ofthedawn_x]

I've done this for other things but not text. It might work better for you/different sizes but I'm not altogether sure, this could just be something else? I use PSP9 btw

[wordnerd_amber]

How many did you expand by? Try pasting as a new selection on a black canvas and go to selections>modify>expand and set to one pixel. I got this:

[desibarbossa]

EEE! Thanks! I think I'll try experimenting with different fonts, too. I think this looks better than the one I posted in the OP. Not perfect, but at least I'm getting somewhere.

[enchanted_glass]

I had that problem too. If you're using a decent quality picture, like that one is I think, try using the sharpen brush lightly over it.