chicachellers wrote in icon_tutorial 😡frustrated

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Border question

Firstly I use Photoshop CS3 and I have looked in the memories so many times and tried the suggestions out loads but nothing works and I'm not entirely sure what I am doing wrong, or not doing in the first place.

I would like a border on an icon/header (I want it for both) and it said to go to Layer and then Stroke and do it like that but when I do nothing happens. I have tried flattening the image and doing it like that (after converting it from background to layer), I've tried getting a separate layer on top of everything else and the border never shows up. Can someone please point me in the right direction as I'm driving myself nuts trying to work out where I'm going wrong.

Thank you :)