Photoshop :: Stroking Paths

Edit>Stroke path

Right click

the little right-arrow on the Paths palette

The Circle at the bottom of the paths pallette

(Why does it need more than one?)

Eg - I've just made a curve with the pen tool, fine. I can select it, move it about, but I can't stroke it.

All the menu options are dimmed. By trying anything I might think is appropriate, I usually get there, but quite often either the whole layer boundary is stroked, or a V shaped path when stroked gives a triangle, or an S shaped curve has the ends connected as though by White, so there's a bit missing in the middle.

Often I retry something I believe ought to work, and hey presto it does - but it didn't the first time.

I've read and reread Classroom in a Box and the help files, but I'm missing something.

CS2, XP.