Stroke Going All Over Layer?

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December 1, 2022
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Hi, I have a layer in PS where the stroke in the effects panel doesn’t just go around the edge it goes in spots all over the layer! What on earth could this be caused by? The layer is an image dragged in from illustrator that has been rasterised in PS.

Many thanks for your help,
Gareth

macOS

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Correct answer melissapiccone

Ok, it was “overlapping” method. If you select photo high fidelity it uses this method. If you change the method to “abutting” the present chages from “photo high fidelity” to “custom”. However, I have now figured out a work around where you just flatten the raterized image in PS down onto a layer below and all the weird spots in the middle go away when you put a stroke on the layer.

The stroke goes around all of the pixels, so if you have "stray" pixels, or in your case - "holes" - the stroke will show up.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Could you provide the ai-file (or a psd with the placed, unrasterized Smart Object)?

Gareth_WilliamsAuthor

Inspiring

I've realised that it's only when the stroke is set to centre that this happens. When you set the stroke in the effect to outside everything goes back to normal. The unrasterized ai attached. Yeah it was image trace, photo high fidelity,

Gareth_WilliamsAuthor

Inspiring

Again: Which »Method« did you use?!

Ok, it was “overlapping” method. If you select photo high fidelity it uses this method. If you change the method to “abutting” the present chages from “photo high fidelity” to “custom”. However, I have now figured out a work around where you just flatten the raterized image in PS down onto a layer below and all the weird spots in the middle go away when you put a stroke on the layer.