"Weird???"....No not really. You WANT the texture to spill over the borders of the template just a little to prevent the joined seams from showing. Making a path around the template contains (restricts) the texture well within the template. Depending on the stroke weight of the path, the thickness can restrict the texture from even meeting the borders by several pixels. Dont know why you think you should be making a path around the template but it is really needless, and counterproductive. Hope that helps, SWAMP (Chuck)