# Extremely Easy Rectangle Tool Question
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/extremely-easy-rectangle-tool-question/6646
**Category:** design
**Created:** [October 13, 2002, 4:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/extremely-easy-rectangle-tool-question/6646 "2002-10-13T04:28:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Reggit](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Reggit)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2002, 4:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/extremely-easy-rectangle-tool-question/6646/1 "2002-10-13T04:28:49Z")
How do I get a black border around a box I make using the rectangle tool in Photoshop 6.0? I know there is an easy way to do so, since I see it so often. Did I accidently turn that off, as in, it originally is there, or do I have to toggle something? :q:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2002, 4:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/extremely-easy-rectangle-tool-question/6646/2 "2002-10-13T04:31:16Z")
Create your rectangle with the rectangle tool. Make sure you rasterize the layer first (right click on the layer with the rectangle and choose rasterize).
Now hold CTRL and click on the layer with the retangle. This will select the rectangle. Now go to Edit/Stroke.
Mess with the settings in there and voila, you have a black border around your square.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2002, 4:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/extremely-easy-rectangle-tool-question/6646/3 "2002-10-13T04:44:15Z")
Anyway that I can get a solid black line? It keeps preserving the opacity deficient coloring of the actual rectangle. More or less, the black line is getting the same 50% opacity as I made the rectangle. Donβt want that. π
:pirate: Ar.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2002, 4:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/extremely-easy-rectangle-tool-question/6646/4 "2002-10-13T04:49:26Z")
Are you making the layer at 50% opacity? if so, then that is why, because everything on that layer will be at 50%. So create a new layer and do the Stroke.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2002, 4:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/extremely-easy-rectangle-tool-question/6646/5 "2002-10-13T04:52:27Z")
I should really try thinking of the easy way out of these things. π Just made my comic from 10 layers for the whole thing to about 40. Oh well, heh.
Thanks again. :A+:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2002, 4:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/extremely-easy-rectangle-tool-question/6646/6 "2002-10-13T04:53:41Z")
Did you fix it?