First of all you have to understand that Adobe Photoshop is not vector base graphic application. The shape tool, that just included in adobe photoshop cs, can not completely replace vector base application. And of course one of the features that adobe didn’t include in photoshop is stroke. If you need high quality vector base graphic you will need Adobe illustrator.

Anyway you have 2 options to create unfilled retangular with stroke, other than create it in illustrator and paste it into photoshop as pixel.

First, you can use Line Shape Tool to draw multiple line to create rectangle. The line to in photoshop is similar to retangular shape tool. It normally create rectangle with very small width. For this alternative you can get vector like shape.

Second, you can use Rectangle Shape Tool to create shape layer as usual. And apply stroke layer style to the layer. Then decrease fill option (at top left of layer palette below opacity) to 0%. The fill option is similar to opacity, that it used to control layer opacity but is will not effect layer style. The stroke created by this method is bitmap base so it will not really sharpe like the stroke created from first method.

How do I crate the outline of a shape, using the shape tool? I mean, I know how to create a FILLED shape with the tool, but that’s not what
i want. If I want, for instance, a rectangle, unfilled, set to whatever color I’ve got picked and maybe even change the thickness of
the lines in the rectangle.

Crazily enough, something that’s SO simple to do in just about every other graphics program I’ve worked with (Pagemaker, even Paint) seems
to require an extra step or just that’s eluding me here.

Get the feeling it’s something so blindingly simple, and I’m just dumb and not seeing it.

Anyway, any help would be appreciated, feel free to email me. Thanks!

great, bro!

thanx