Trying to stroke a path in PS7

Hi,
I'm trying to apply a stroke to a line that I drew with the pen tool however afterwards when I go into the paths pallete I don't get the option "Stroke Path", it's just greyed out. It shows my line as "Shape 1 Vector Mask". Can someone point me in the right direction please?

Thanks in advance
Rachel

Rachel, In PS 6 (not sure about seven-but should be similar) you can go to the paths pallet and choose to 'make path a selection' then it gives you those moving ants. The icon for that is a little circle outlined in dashes.

Good luck!

Rats and double rats
Well, I get to the point with the "moving ants" (never thought of it like that!) but still no stroke menu :(

once you get the ants, go under the edit menu and choose stroke.

Thanks for the help, however Stroke is still greyed out, I'm not so sure it should be a vector mask? (could be wrong!). From scratch here's what I'm doing. Create a new document in RGB mode. Add a new layer. Draw my line with the pen tool, go to the path palette which shows my line as Shape 1 vector mask...Then I did the first suggestion till I got the ants

Maybe make a new layer and make sure that is the layer you are working on, the 'ants' (that was a Pank ism, thought it was pretty funny way to think about those things.) the ant's will still be selected and stroke on that new layer.

That should work.

OK here's what's up:

just before you draw your selection, click off vector shapes (top left corner in menu bar, just under 'Image') and click the little tiny box next to it called 'paths' I believe. It's going to allow the old-school way to use the pen and stroke works just fine.

good question!

Thank you!

Clicking the "Paths" box worked perfectly. Now I can rest easy after spending two days trying to get it working. hihi