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Can someone please help me. I'm very new to photoshop and learning as I go. I have a triangle shape and the fill is a grunge type look (it has tiny holes in it that allow you to see through it). I'm trying to do a stroke or border around it but the stroke fills in the inside of the fill and all around those tiny holes. I only want it on the very outside of the shape. I have already adjusted the position of the stroke to outside. It doesn't fix it.
 

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This is a tricky one. Here's one approach:
  • Turn off the stroke layer style in your Layer 1.
  • With Layer 1 active, select the magic wand tool and make sure that the box labeled Contiguous is checked.
  • Click the magic wand into an area of the blank background. It should create a selection of everything but your colored shapes.
  • Invert that selection with the command Select>Inverse (or hit Shift+Ctrl+i).
  • While that selection is active, create a new empty layer immediately above Layer1.
  • On that empty layer, click the menu commands for Edit>Stroke. You'll see the familiar stroke settings for color, size, inside vs, outside, etc.
  • Once you've created the stroke on that new layer, you can manually clean it up with the brush or eraser tool, if necessary. Then you have the option to either keep the stroke as a separate layer or merge it with your Layer 1.
 
I think what you really want is an outline of the object.
Here's a quick tutorial to help:


Using this tutorial, I added a black, 20px outline around the triangle - you can change the outline to any color and width of the line to whatever you like:

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As in all things Photoshop, there are different ways to do the same thing!
 
I will try both of these when I get home. Thank you so much. I appreciate it more than you know. I don’t mind spending my time researching and watching tutorials. The problem I have is I don’t know what I’m trying to accomplish is called so it’s hard to find a tutorial for it. So glad I found this forum.
 
tarafountain said:
Thank you. I was able to get it done. Any idea how I would make the fill of the stroke look like the other fill (grunge)?
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Can you explain a bit more what you mean by "grunge effect"? Can you show any other samples of what you're trying to achieve?
 
I feel the OP want's to know how to add the "grunge effect" to the outline.....

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If @IamSam is in the right direction, you can just use a filter effect on the outline stroke.

The stroke is on a separate layer here so I turned it into a smart layer - so I can always go back and change - then went to Filter > Filter Gallery and chose the Graphic Pen:

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Click OK and here's the result:

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Here I rasterized - if it's a smart layer - and the "chopped" away at the stroke with a masked grunge brush:

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JeffK said:
If @IamSam is in the right direction, you can just use a filter effect on the outline stroke.

The stroke is on a separate layer here so I turned it into a smart layer - so I can always go back and change - then went to Filter > Filter Gallery and chose the Graphic Pen:

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Click OK and here's the result:

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Here I rasterized - if it's a smart layer - and the "chopped" away at the stroke with a masked grunge brush:

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Ok I was able to do the filter step successfully but you lost me on the second step. What do you mean chopped away with a masked grunge brush?

How do I get mine to look like your finished result? I still see all the green scribble lines. How do I get those to go away to where I just see the black stroke (like in your pic above).

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tarafountain said:
Ok I was able to do the filter step successfully but you lost me on the second step. What do you mean chopped away with a masked grunge brush?
How do I get mine to look like your finished result? I still see all the green scribble lines. How do I get those to go away to where I just see the black stroke (like in your pic above).
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What I meant by "chpped away" was what @IamSam - just using a layer mask and then a grunge brush to mask out parts of the outline.

(*Please forgive me if I'm telling you something you already know - I don't the extent of your knowledge)

You'll need grunge brushes - here's a set that I use - Grunge Brushes by Aramis Dream

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Grunge Brushes by Aramisdream/Grunge_Brushes_by_Aramisdream/.DS_Store and 2 more files

3 files sent via WeTransfer, the simplest way to send your files around the world
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You can also go to sites like Brusheezy.com and pick from many different sets.

Here's a quick tutorial on how to add brushes:


To demonstrate most simply, here's a box I created on a transparent backgroud:

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Now with the layer active, I'm going to add a layer mask by clicking on the mask adjustment layer icon - that's the square with the black circle:

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The mask is white which means it's revealing what it's covering ( the green rectangle). In masking, white reveals and black hides.

Now I'm going to click on my brush tool and choose a grunge brush:

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Now making sure my foreground color is black and the mask is active, I'm going to paint on the green square to hide parts of the image:

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You can see on the white mask where I've hidden parts of the image.

You can switch brushes, and make them different sizes - however your want the image to look. If you want to undo, just paint in white.

If this doesn't make sense to you, please let me know. And please forgive me if you know what I've written in above instructions.

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No, I need the detail. I a beginner. Trying to learn as I go. Ok, but how did you end with it being black? I'm about to try the steps you put above. THANKS A MILLION!
 
tarafountain said:
No, I need the detail. I a beginner. Trying to learn as I go. Ok, but how did you end with it being black? I'm about to try the steps you put above. THANKS A MILLION!
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Glad to help - but I'm losing my place in the thread. Don't understand "how did it end with it being black". Which part of a thread is that pointing to?
 
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