Help with stroke!

[K.8.T]

I've given myself one doozey of a headache trying to figure out how to get (2) 2pixel, different color strokes on text. Starting with red text and wanting a white 2pixel stroke then a black 2pixel stroke. I know one of you gurus will know how to do this but I sure as heck can't figure it out. I'll betcha it's easy, too. :)

[jonbalza]

Welcome to the forums, great first question. It's easy once you know the options, but if you don't, then it could take you forever.

Do you mean
http://www.balzasteel.com/temp/likethis.jpg

If you do, it is just a layer style with a stroke applied. It has to be set to "Gradient" and then set the gradient to "shape burst". Once there, edit the gradient to have a sudden jump from black to white about halfway, then set the width of the stroke to 4px.

If that doesn't help, try this style. (http://www.balzasteel.com/temp/outline.asl)

[K.8.T]

OMG!!! That's it!! See...I knew it would be something easy for you guys but omg was it giving me fits. I had a feeling that a layer style would be involved but where to start had me stumped. Thank you, thank you, thank you for the "tut" and the style. OMG, this is great! :D

[jonbalza]

Glad I could be of help. Anytime.

[BabbleGrabble]

Looks like Sir Jon already took good care of you, Katie. Just wanted to say hello and welcome you to PsT.

Cheers!
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[lokki]

Hiya K.8.T. welcome to PST!

So what is VP steel, and just how much of a smartass are ya? How about nerd quotient? We're gettin' kinda low on nerds so we gotta stick together. I'm guessing you like to pun, but I've found the statistics here a little disconcerting. I tried a little experiment with ten different puns to make people laugh, but no pun in ten did.





%|


ba-dum ch....

Yeah, I got a couple of 'em, a couple of 'em.




Ok, I'm really not that annoying, so please don't be afraid ;}

[strych9ine]

Thank God you aren't always that annoying. That was a rough post to get through, lokkster, I need a beer now. :~

K8T, welcome to the forum. Jon's a stud, don't get too intoxicated by his PS guru magic. :*

[lokki]

9ine, I just knew you'd show up for a thread title like this one %/

Oh, and if that was tough to get through, I assume you haven't seen this (http://photoshoptechniques.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=17990&highlight=derive#post17990).

Don't worry K.8.T - we all fambly here. It's just that 9ine is related to a few more of us than is legal in some states B)

[Greg Vander Houwen]

You two are a smile on a plate. %)

Greg

[sPECtre]

Clean and direct solution , Jon! it rocks!

My solution would have been to make a copy of the layer, with a 4 pixel stroke on the bottom layer and a two pixels on the top one...

But yours has many advantages (one layer, easy edit, etc...)

That reminded me the multistroking a path tutorial : (advanced tutorial) http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/photoshop/multistroke01.html

[K.8.T]

ROFLMAO!! You guys are a hoot!! There's nothing like a good guffaw to make one feel welcome.........well, offering a Lemondrop martini never hurt, either.
VP=Vice President. Big deal, it's just a title IMHO and thankfully it's a small company so I can still be my silly self most of the time. The smartass part comes into play more often than not but it sounds like there's a few more around here too. :6
The nerd quotient is fairly high in my world. I'd rather tear a computer apart or read manuals and PS books than ALMOST anything else.
Thanks everybody for the welcomes, the links, the puns (ya gotta love 'em) and anything else that I may have overlooked. This has to be the best PS board on the 'net.


Katie

[bigcloud]

Cool! Nice clean style, Jon!

[strych9ine]

Originally posted by lokki
It's just that 9ine is related to a few more of us than is legal in some states B)

Good one, papa Lokki. :lol:

[lokki]

ah-h-h! Vice President!

I was thinking it was some odd industry-specific steel, like Vanadium-Phosphorous or something. I actually went looking through my metals books for VP Steel (I'm a metallographer at least part of the time).

Now, don't I feel like a moron... :lol:

[Magikman]

Well, I'm late as usual.

Welcome the the good ship PST (I gotta think of a new greeting). Hope ya enjoy your stay.

VP, I'm one of those and also President, Secretary, Finance Director, Human Resources, Worker Bee, Head of the Art Dept. and Janitor. Working a real job and having your own business sometime makes for a busy dayf| Now you know why I'm late with the welcome. :6

Now lokki, don't feel too bad, you have always felt like a moron to me:~ I'm joking, really, joking. Off topic. Did ya ever get my Email about the loops? (Cool Edit)?

[lokki]

OUCH!

<golf_clap>
Well done, MM - you deserve a round of applause for that.
</golf_clap>

and yep - got the note and replied. I'll resend tonight.

Sorry for hijaking the thread, K.8.T

[K.8.T]

No problem, Lokki. You guys crack me up. http://www.emotipad.com/emoticons/Lager%20Louts.gif


Katie