Adding strokes to images easier
On either links or embedded image files, it would be super helpful to be able to add a stroke to it instead of the messy workaround of drawing one or adding multiple, RAM-hogging glow effects with no blur to the get that effect.
Scott Corey
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Wow I'm not sure why I never did this...seems to work pretty well. Thank you!
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Even though you can use Glow effect to fake a stoke, it’s not the intended way of making one. No-no-no.
In InDesign, all placed images live inside containers, auto-made clip masks that hug images inside tightly, until changed. So each image already has a vector path attached that InDesign can stroke.
In Illustrator images live naked. They have bounds, but no vector path initially.
And we can generate one. Assign a stroke to an image (yes, using Appearance). Apply Effect > Path > Outline Object effect to this stroke. Very lightweight, simple stack, can be saved into Graphic Styles. Sure, not as easy as 'click', but fair, when you know how appearance work and what it can do.
I upvote this anyway. Thanks!
