Edit ¦ Stroke disabled for Text layer (5.5)

[Guest_imported]

I have already found the work-around, but given what the manual and other books say, why do I have to use it? They say to stroke text, double click on the text layer, then use Edit | Stroke. I have tried all the combinations of selecting, not selecting etc etc that I can think of, and Edit always comes up with Stroke greyed-out and disabled. The only way I can get stroked text is to select the entire text layer, copy to the clipboard, paste to a new layer. Stroke then does become available and works exactly as advertised. To finish, the original text layer then has to be trashed. So what was totally frustrating is now only mildly irritating because of what seem to be several unnecessary extra steps. I am using Photoshop 5.5

 

[Mihir]

Hi,

One way is that you make the selection for the text and add a layer and on new layer say Edit > Stroke

Other way is that you render the text layer by Right click on th layer on the icon T and say Render Layer then go to Edit > stroke.

This will Help.

 

[Guest_imported]

Sure - I don't have any trouble actually getting stroked text... it's just that it seems so unnecessaey to me to have to create a new layer, or right click, or anything else. I can see no obvious reason why the Stroke option should be greyed-out in the first place.