Applying a Stroke to a work path

If you are talking about a plain Stroke (without any painterly or structural elements) I would recommend creating a Shape Layer and applying a vector Stroke to that. 

A couple of ways:

1. Draw out your path, select the painting tool you wish to stroke the path with and press Enter/Return

2. right click on the path in document area and click Stroke Path

    can also be done by right clicking on the Path thumbnail in the Paths panel or from the Paths panel fly out menu

Be aware there is bug where when picking the tool from the stroke path dialog so you might get the stroke from a different tool.

You can also apply a stroke to a path by drawing it out as a Shape or turning your work path into color fill/shape layer as described in this thread:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/how-to-create-stroke-from-path/m-p/13783456

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