To Stroke A Path Using The Current Stroke Path Settings; To Stroke A Path And Specify Options - Adobe PHOTOSHOP CS2 User Manual

4 Specify an opacity for the fill. To make the fill more transparent, use a low percentage. A setting of 100% makes
the fill opaque.
Choose a blending mode for the fill. (See "List of blending modes" on page 487.)
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The Mode list includes a Clear mode that lets you erase to transparency. You must be working in a layer other than
the background to use this option.
6 Choose Preserve Transparency to limit the fill to layer areas that contain pixels. (See "Locking layers" on
page 405.)
7 Select a Rendering option:
Defines how far inside and outside the selection border the feather edge extends. Enter a value in
Feather Radius
pixels.
Creates a finer transition between the pixels in the selection and the surrounding pixels by partially
Anti-aliased
filling the edge pixels of the selection.
For more information on these options, see "Methods for softening the edges of a selection" on page 326.
8 Click OK.

To stroke a path using the current Stroke Path settings

1 Select the path in the Paths palette.
Click the Stroke Path button
2
the opacity of the stroke and in some cases makes it look thicker.
See also
"To stroke a path and specify options" on page 470

To stroke a path and specify options

Select the path in the Paths palette.
1
Select the painting or editing tool you want to use to stroke the path. Set the tool options, and specify a brush from
2
the options bar. You must specify the tool's settings before opening the Stroke Path dialog box. For information on
specific tool settings, see "To use the Smudge tool" on page 372 and "Painting" on page 471.
To stroke the path, do one of the following:
3
• Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) the Stroke Path button
Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Mac OS) the path to the Stroke Path button.
•
Choose Stroke Path from the Paths palette menu. If the selected path is a path component, this command changes
•
to Stroke Subpath.
If you did not select a tool in step 2, choose a tool from the Stroke Path dialog box.
4
Click OK.
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at the bottom of the Paths palette. Each click of the Stroke Path button builds up
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at the bottom of the Paths palette.
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