photoshop/imageready glitter text, outlining/stroking letters help Options

[lindakay]

i've attempted numerous times to make glitter words with a transparent background that are outlined/stroked but when it's posted on a black/dark background, it looks sloppy/messy? here's a screenshot of what i'm talking about.



no matter what color i use to stroke, my images come out looking like that. i've tried different variations of filling/stroking my text but still no luck and i've even played with the text style (crisp, smooth, etc.) after rasterizing my text type, i can't touch up/erase the edges w/o ruining the whole letter.

what can i do or what am i doing wrong? i referenced this tutorial but it doesn't mention anything about if you wanted to outline/stroke the text?

[JoJo_x]

when you put things on transparent, they tend to have those extra white things on the outside, you can't do anything about it.

I think instead of putting a transparent background, you should choose "white" background, tell the bucket tool, change color to black, and pour in black on the document, then do the text thing, and it will look fine.