Layer Style - Stroke Style

I have done this a thousand times before and have never had an issue. That is until I upgraded to CS4. When I try to apply a Stoke Style to a marquee box w/ an inside position, the entire box fills. It never used to do this. It doesn't matter what size stroke I use, it still fills entire box. Any thoughts? Thanks.

That's what I was trying to do. Again, it's worked before, but not now. Here are the steps. Maybe you can see something that I'm doing wrong.
1. Create fixed size marquee box on a new layer
2. Fill the box w/ a color (usually #999999)
3. Add image layer above the box
4. Clip mask it to the box
I tried to add the stroke before an after clipping the image to the box and it still fills w/ a solid color. Thanks for the advice.

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Hi There,
I'm a comic artist using Photoshop CC (64 bit, Version: 14.2.1) on a Windows 8.1 machine, with a 4th Gen i7, Nvidia 750M 2GB GFX card and 16Gb RAM. 'Use Graphics Processor' is set to Advanced and Memory Usage is set to 10348Mb (71%).
I'm running a dual screen setup with a Wacom Cintiq 21UX hooked up via HDMI to my Dell XPS 2720.
I typically work on an A4 size document at 400dpi.
The problem I'm having is with tremendous lag when using the transform tool to scale things up and down and when using the standard brush tool for comic art linework.
I have a group of layers with all my speech bubbles and text in. With each white speech bubble on a seperate with a Layer Style / Stroke of 5 pixels around each one.
If I hide all of the speech bubbles (But not the text) then scaling using the Transform tool is nice and smooth and 100% lag free, as it should be on my spec machine.
If I disable Graphics Processor Settings, or scale them down to Normal or Basic the problem is exactly the same.
If I use the 32 bit version of Phtooshop CC scaling and brush storkes are lag free even with the speech bubble layers visible.
I've updated my system bios and GFX card drivers to the latest Dell release.
It's an annoying technical hiccup that I've found a workaround for but I would like and expect to be able to use basic tools like Transform and the Brush without lag, with all layers visible.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, Thanks for replying to my thread.
After posting to a new thread here:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/6263746#6263746
Through my own roundabout way I got to this same conclusion.
So yes, you're completely right, it helps massively. If only you'd been around a few weeks ago.
Thanks again.

Having problem with applying layer style "stroke" to group

- Windows 8.1 / 64bit
- i3-4150 / 4GB / Geforce GTX 750 TI
- Photoshop CC 2014
Hi!
I don't know why, but there is some problem that applying layer style "stroke" to group.
When i make a group with some layer and apply to group a layer style-stroke with inside option,
the strokes looks like grid are generated inside.
Why i said that stroke cross to ㅎrid, because it looks like grid if i make that group bigger.
(that black square is 'Rectangle 1' layer. Just resizing bigger than before)
Does anyone have same problem with me?
Please, I need your help..

pillfish wrote:
I am having the same problem. it happens every time in cc and cc 2014. I am back using cs6. Which seems to run better on the whole.
That's interesting. And this is happening with CC and CC 2014? Do you have all the updates for the Photoshop CC versions?
I've just tried to duplicate it without success, (windows 7, GTX570) so I wonder if there is a condition that triggers it? Unfortunately, with this being such an old thread, the only person still around is R Kelly.
OK, I just thought to try it on my Cintiq Companion 2, which has Windows 8.1 and Intel 5100, and the bug occurred. I actually got as far as firing up my Win 8.1 laptop before remembering that I had to sign out of CC to put it on my Cintiq, so I only have CS6 on it.
Anyway.... looks like the bug is still there. Are you using Win 8.1?

New stroke options for the layer style "Stroke"

Hi,
The new stroke options are fantastic where you can edit gaps, align and corners. And I love the ability to add layer styles to groups which makes it much easier to work with separate parts in a group that should be treated as a common object.
BUT! Why haven't you updated the stroke (layer style) options to include these new awesome stroke features? I would love to be able to make dashed strokes as a layer style that can be applied to groups, and I don't see why this should be excluded as an option.
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On twitter: @uxhannes

We are happy that you like the new features in CS6. You can request new features from your ideas here: http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family and people can vote on them.
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We are happy that you like the new features in CS6. You can request new features from your ideas here: http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family and people can vote on them.
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There seems to be a problem with aliasing of Layer Style Stroke.
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I kept super organized when setting up my table styles this time. I set as many things as possible in the table setup, followed by cell styles for certain columns and certain rows (like subdividers). The problem with cell styles is that you can't set stroke styles BETWEEN cells, only around them. So if there's a setting to do this on the macro level, I'd be really happy. I always get issues with misapplied formatting when I apply too many styles or overrides, so that's what I'm trying to avoid.
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I actually need the cell styles. That's what sets my font, spacing, and GREP styles.
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[JS/CS4] What's up with the Stroke Styles?

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function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}
As far as I know, those 18 styles are built-in styles. You can't delete them, edit or whatever...
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Hi BobM1990,
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http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/images-in-brushes.html
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/creative-suite-podcast-designers/how-to-use-images-as-brushes-in -adobe-illustrator-cc/
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stroke style stippled crashes when testing movie or trying to publish.
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Like I said, it is hard to be certain.
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So, my intuition is you should try an OS reinstall.
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You can contact Adobe Support at http://www.adobe.com/go/supportportal.

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radarlen,
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