Aqua-Soft ForumsWhere is it located. Becasue all my strokes seem so choppy and jagged. I really need some help.
[help] Anti-Aliasing for PS CS
There are different techniques to achieve anti-aliasing. Google for some tutorials and give them a try until you find a style that suits you. Remember to practise because it can be tricky, don't give up. 
Depends on what tool, what resolution you are using. If you could tell me more of what you are trying to achive and how I can help you.
When i add a stroke, the stroke is jagged. Its supposed to be smooth.
What does this have to do with Icons? This belongs in Digital Studio forum.
Also next time use tags.
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I would say its your resolution or the image format you are working in.... can you post a screenie or something as there are so many factors that could be causing this...
Some fonts it must be want a "Clear Type or Standard" (If you are using LCD monitor) technique. Change this properties, after look at.
I think he is talking about the pen tool; although its not too clear at the moment....
Assuming you're referring to the stroke option in the layer blending options, yeah, I've had my share of problems with it. Since photoshop decides to be dumb and strokes on any sort of rounded edge appears jagged even at the even percentages in sizes such as 100%, 50%, 25% etc. Since at 66.7% and so on, those all look jagged regardless.
Aside from all that.
The best way to avoid jagged edges on a stroke is to just make the stroke yourself instead of using the blending options, which pretty much goes with any other blending option, it's always better to recreate the effect yourself, it always looks better in the long run.
Anyway, a way to create a stroke is make a selection around the entire object that you want to apply a stroke to. Create a new layer above it, and fill the entire area with the color that you want the stroke to be. Then, while the selection is still active, in the menu go to "select/modify/contract" and input the number of pixels you want the thickness of the stroke to be. Basically this will just make the selection itself slightly smaller than the original object, then you just clear the area in that selection so all that's left is the part you colored on the outside of the selection. Tada, there's your stroke. Usually they work a lot better having an actual raster layer if you're trying to work with at a large scale. If there are still any tricky edges you can always try to blur them a little bit so on and so forth.
If you're working with an icon, for example and you finish it and want to size it down to an actual icon size before saving it's also good to do one of two things: After making a back up .psd at that finished state you either A: merge the entire icon together except the background (I assume you want that transparent) BEFORE resizing it down, because if you have any blending options set for a layer, when they're sized down the settings seem to get messed up and are inconsistent or B: convert all the blending options to actual layers so their settings don't get messed up with the resize.
Blah, anyway, sorry about the long drawn out post, if it's too confusing I'll try to simplify it. Just trying to be helpful. 
Ah thanks. But it only happened recently when strokes are jagged. Thanks for it. I'll start designing strokes myself.