Photoshop Inside Stroke Opacity Weirdness
It’s nice to know that I’m not the only obsessive compulsive out there neurotic enough to notice this. Dave Shea comments on the odd behavior of the opacity control in the Photoshop stroke layer style settings here (“Position: Inside” to be specific). It’s not a bug per se, just darn odd. The proxy icons in Shea’s screenshots show he’s using Photoshop CS, but this behavior continues on in CS2.
3 Comments
Roger Antonio
It’s the same in CS5.
Nice to know that I’m not the only one.
Elizabeth Kaylene
I’m having a similar issue. I created a square using the Rectangle Tool. I set that square’s opacity to 25%, as I’m using it to highlight a section of the screenshot in the layer below it. Since the color is now a very light pastel yellow — #fff799 — I want to add a thin blue — #003471 — stroke around the square. I preview my stroke to see how thick I want it to be. While playing with the settings in preview mode, either one of two strange things happen. My stroke takes on the opacity of the square, regardless of whether I convert it to a smart object or rasterize it. The stroke should be at 100% opacity — or at least, you’d think so. The second thing that happens — and I have no idea how to duplicate this, as it seems to just happen at random — is that the square takes on a a variation of the chosen stroke color, as if it’s being overlayed. I have not applied any other effects or filters, so this is very, very strange.
I have CS4 on my laptop at home (I’m at work), so I’ll try to remember to see if this happens in that version. Has anyone else run into this? Did you find any other workarounds? It’s not really a big deal at the moment — I can just go without the highlight — but in the future, it might be a problem.
As a sidenote, your comment form is doing some strange stuff. If I leave the screen or open up a dialog box in Firefox, everything I’ve typed into the form disappears. If I hit CTRL+Z, my text comes back. Your font also shows up slightly illegible in my browser (I’m using FF 3.6.16). I don’t mean to be a pain but being an OCD designer myself, I’d want someone to tell me! :D
David Sleight
I may not have all the details, but you should be able to quickly set the opacity of the fill independently from the stroke by using the “Fill” slider in the upper right of Layers palette (not the opacity slider). This shouldn’t impact the stroke opacity, regardless of whether it’s position is set to “Inside” or “Outside”.
Regarding the comment form, you’re absolutely right. There’s some wonkiness right now that I need to iron out. in the meantime, I’m disabling the placeholder-like behavior I had scripted for it.