Outline stroke
Convert a stroke into a filled vector shape with editable paths.
What outline stroke does
A stroke is normally a visual property applied around the edge of a shape — it has a width, color, and position (center, inside, or outside), but its outline is not directly editable as geometry. Outline stroke converts that stroke into an actual filled vector shape whose anchor points you can then manipulate in vector edit mode.
This is useful when you want to:
- Bevel, round, or distort the stroke's outline
- Create complex stroke effects by modifying the resulting shape
- Apply fills and effects to the stroke shape independently
- Export clean vector artwork where stroke width must be embedded as geometry
Converting a stroke to an outline
- Select a vector or shape that has a stroke applied.
- Find Outline Stroke in the right inspector layer actions menu.
- The stroke is removed from the layer's style properties and replaced with a new vector shape that matches the stroke's visual outline.
What changes after outlining
- The original stroke property disappears — the shape's visual border is now the new vector outline shape.
- The resulting shape has its own fill (matching the original stroke color) and can be styled independently.
- Enter vector edit mode on the new shape to move individual anchor points.
Tips
- Duplicate the layer before running outline stroke so you can revert to the original if needed.
- Apply this after finalizing your stroke width — changing the outline width after converting requires manual path adjustments.
- Outline stroke is most useful before applying boolean operations, which work on filled geometry and do not include stroke thickness.