Inside stroke layer style and opacity.

Question

When i apply an inside stroke with transparency to a layer, the opacity seems to cause a knock-out effect on the layer itself rather than applying the transparent stroke.
How do i apply a semi transparent inside stroke without making the object it's applied to become transparent rather than the stroke itself?
Rob.

Answer 1

Unfortunately i'm already using inner glow
Basically i'm doing some old paper, so inner glow's being used for the browning around the inner edges.
I'm trying to use gradient stroke to give a thin highlight around the innner edge of the paper that fades to nothing. Bevel and Emboss can work for this sort of thing sometimes, but in this case it's not, hence why trying stroke.
Unfortunately the gradient stroke's transparency makes the object i'm applying everything to go transparent (i've exagerated the effect here by setting stroke to 100px, but the problem is obviously also present at 1px and just looks wrong).
Mind you - generally i'd like to understand why stroke behaves this way, as it's not the first time i've wanted to do something with stroke transparency that causes me this problem.
Rob.