Stop Rounded Corners on Stoke Effect & Selection Expand

[kellyg3508995]

Hi,

I can not, for the life of me, figure out how to stop the outside layer stroke style going rounded. It's straight when I make the position "inside" and I need it straight for "outside".

Also... when I expand a square selection it also goes rounded.

I am using Adobe CC on an iMac.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I've spent too long trying to figure it out. Is this a setting I have somewhere?

Thank you!

[c.pfaffenbichler]

You seem to be using the wrong »tool« for what you want to achieve.

The Layer Style Stroke is useless to you, instead create a Shape Layer and apply a vector Stroke from the Options Panel.

[Guest]

OOP's forgot to hit the refresh again

[c.pfaffenbichler]

But you posted a screenshot right away and an image being worth »a thousand words« you probably helped the OP much more.

[marcuss19123538]

Still works as you would expect in P'shop 2022 but not in 2023 or 2024.

Please repair it Adobe!

[c.pfaffenbichler]

when I expand a square selection it also goes rounded.

Work-around:

• Switch to Quick Mask Mode (Q),

• Filter > Other > Maximum,

• set it to preserve »Squareness« instead of »Roundness«,

• exit Quick Mask Mode (Q).

[Guest]

Hi

You could try using the Shape Tool to create the shape that way you can add an outside stroke and have better control over it

[kellyg3508995]

Thanks everybody! I'm going to try a few of those options... I'm pretty sure in the past it's always been straight, not curved. Not sure what changed. I really appreciate the replies : )

[c.pfaffenbichler]

I'm pretty sure in the past it's always been straight, not curved.

I think you are mistaken and the Layer Style Stroke has been like that for a long time.

[Leslie Moak Murray]

Yes, it has always been this way. I just make a ilttle rectangle at each corner and merge them. The stroke takes on the shape of the round brush, and the roundedness is worse the wider the stroke is.

[alb830]

I know exactly what you are talking about and you are right-used to be straight. I am trying the same thing (using fx for an image). The corners are rounded and it is driving me nuts!

[marcuss19123538]

Apologies all, stroke on the outside and centred in 2022 is still rounded. Only an inside stroke picks up the sharp edges.

[philip1587]

This is typical of the disaster of a wreck that photoshop has become ever since they moved all the coding out of the USA . Every update seems to try to promise "wonderous new features powered br AI "like adding lighthouses to to the image when basic features like retaining the actual shape of a outline when expanding it have gone . You never know when using this program if a feature or menu you have used for tears will still be there or even work.  

[Eryk Wróbel]

This is just unbelievable that if I want to create ie. a white border outside of a pasted perfectly square image then the corners become rounded.