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[sharifsucks]

a little question about something that's been annoying me for a while...

everytime i try to put text in photoshop (72dpi) it becomes blurry, not really noticeable, but pretty irritating...

i know i could turn the anti aliasing mode off or use pixel fonts, the thing is, i still want it anti aliased for the rounded parts... but not for the straight lines... is there anything i can do about this? tried the anti aliasing settings like crisp, smooth etc... but that doesnt help...

i hope i'm clear enough, any help would be greatly appreciated.

sharfsucks

 

[sharifsucks]

so sorry about the uncompleted subject title...

 

[kiddpete]

Wouldn't layers let you do this?

 

[dimoj]

You actually bring up a fairly good question Sharif.

The answer, I reckon, is compromise.

Your idea of having the curved parts of fonts antialiased and the straight parts not, is not unreasonable, but I believe the the resulting transation between 'anti' and 'not anti' would appear very jagged.

Is that small version of 'home profile' the actual size you want the graphic to be?

If so...the text doesn't appear all that bad to me, but I understand your calamity.

The one easy fix would be to increase the tracking on your font (or individually kern letters) so that the spacing between the 'i' and 'l' is greater and you would not get that overlap of the antialiasing of the two characters, which creates that dark spot.

The other 'compromise' would be to choose a better font for the text size or to increase the font size slightly so the antialiasing is not quite so noticible.

If your graphic is for the web you could explore even more ways to make your text look better (like in Flash how you can create 'graphics' allowing text to be rendered by the users computer, therefore achieving sharper text for viewing)

I could go on...but I hope this helps.

 

[sharifsucks]

isn't there a standart for certain fonts, that when you adjust the size, tracking, height and width percentages the horizontal lines and vertical lines will fit exactly to the pixels?

does that make sense?

 

[dimoj]

No sorry, I don't understand your post.

 

[barehug]

you could always use anti-aliasing, get the desired size, rasterize it and clean it up with the pencil and rubber.
I know, its a cop out.

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