Help-- Unwanted "Octagons" when using Stroke in PS

Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF

04/15/2005 10:35:13 PM · #1

Sometimes when I use the stroke tool in Photoshop 7.0, I get these octagonal discolorations of the photo. Has anyone else experienced this, and if so can you tell me how to avoid it? Thanks.

faidoi

Pentax K10D

04/15/2005 10:36:48 PM · #2

Examples?

Message edited by author 2005-04-16 14:26:16.

04/15/2005 10:46:30 PM · #3

here is an example
//jpeters03.tripod.com/photos/cityarch.jpg

04/16/2005 12:43:31 AM · #4

Bad link, shows logo of tripod.com

R.

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

04/16/2005 08:07:10 AM · #5

try this...
//jpeters03.tripod.com/citygallery.htm
it is the picture in the second row, third column

peecee

Canon EOS-5D

04/16/2005 08:10:41 AM · #6

Originally posted by jpeters:

here is an example
//jpeters03.tripod.com/photos/cityarch.jpg

This link works fine for me, can't help you though, just looks like flare to me.

DanSig

04/16/2005 09:21:02 AM · #7

it looks like you use a octagonal brush, wich is very hard, so if seems like this is just the shape of the brush you see, I might be wrong, I donÂ´t use ps7 I have PS CS and I donÂ´t use stroke tool :)

04/16/2005 10:57:31 AM · #8

Okay, that's good... Now can you explain exactly what you mean by "use stroke tool"? There's a lot of ways/times to use it. What were you doing here? I don't think it's "flare", btw, because it seems too defined as to what's behind it.

Robt.

04/16/2005 01:41:27 PM · #9

I use the stroke tool (under EDIT, then STROKE) to put borders around images (such as the border in the example), and it will randomly add these octagons. If it is high resolution photo it adds lots of them, of varying sizes.

Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM

04/16/2005 02:05:51 PM · #10

That's actually a command, not a tool. We had assumed you were stroking with a brush. I don't have a clue what's going on here. I am unable to replicate it. Sorry.

Robt.

Imagineer

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

04/16/2005 02:16:24 PM · #11

You can sometimes get this anomaly if you apply a stroke to a slightly masked/transparent or erased area of a layer. Try merging your layer with a white background and reapplying the stroke. You're also better off using a stroke through 'Layer Style' options, which gives you much more control.

04/16/2005 02:20:08 PM · #12

Originally posted by Imagineer:

That makes sense. A quick way to test it would be to make a copy of the image file and flatten it all into one layer and apply the stroke command exactly as you had been doing. See if the artifacts show up on that.

Robt.