Photoshop: Turning a Selection Outline into a Line Drawing?

I'm looking for an easy way to turn a selection edge into a line. Trivial example: Picture of a coin on a piece of white paper. Magic wand on white, invert selection. Then I want to make a circle from that edge of the coin. More complex example: selecting a Mission (old California church) with the basilica and crosses and making the edge a black line.

I did this by making the selection, copying the selection to a new layer, stroking the edge, paint bucket the interior to white, selecting the black. Very sloppy and awkward.

Is there a way to make a selection, stroke it with layer effects and then erase the original selection? Or something similar?

I hope this make sense, sigh.

Found these on YouTube...ya should be able to find direction from one of them. http://www.youtube.com …l0l367l3231l0.1​0.5.1l16l0

chauncey wrote in post #13767070
Found these on YouTube...ya should be able to find direction from one of them. http://www.youtube.com …l0l367l3231l0.1​0.5.1l16l0

Had time to watch a couple and found what I needed coincidentally. Once I have the selection marquee, go to layer effects, add stroke, then DELETE the selection, invert selection and delete. The layer effect is left, which is the stroke. Now I just hope I can remember this, sigh. Thanks, again.

OK, yeah that works, Dwight! You just have to make sure you have your "selection" selected! Fun stuff you can do in PS!

tonylong wrote in post #13767480
OK, yeah that works, Dwight! You just have to make sure you have your "selection" selected! Fun stuff you can do in PS!

Yup, and I tripped over a bunch of other stuff that I am sure I'll be able to use to good effect (pardon the intended pun!)

Wait, layer effect? Why not just stroke the selection? Make the selection, create a new layer, stroke the marquee.

mcluckie wrote in post #13767506
Wait, layer effect? Why not just stroke the selection? Make the selection, create a new layer, stroke the marquee.

Maybe because I don't know where 'stroke' is other than in the layer effects!?

mcluckie wrote in post #13767506
Wait, layer effect? Why not just stroke the selection? Make the selection, create a new layer, stroke the marquee.

I think he's doing that, and then deleting the actual original selection, leaving the stroke in place.

tonylong wrote in post #13767530
I think he's doing that, and then deleting the actual original selection, leaving the stroke in place.

I think he's saying I don't need the layer effect, just go to Edit->stroke after making the selection.

DwightMcCann wrote in post #13767518
Maybe because I don't know where 'stroke' is other than in the layer effects!?

Under Edit on the menu. Next to Fill...

mcluckie wrote in post #13772836
Under Edit on the menu. Next to Fill...

Yup, found it ... see post above yours.