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I’m new to Photoshop (7.0) and I’m drawing a map….any text that I use seems to come out very pixelated and looks poor. What am I doing wrong?

Steve
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jaSPAMc
Feb 10, 2005
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 11:41:38 -0800, "jsm" found these unused words floating about:

I’m new to Photoshop (7.0) and I’m drawing a map….any text that I use seems to come out very pixelated and looks poor. What am I doing wrong?
Steve
Your ‘map’ canvas is too small (low resolution).

Text needs a minimum of 10 pixels in height to -begin- to look fair, 20 to look smooth. AFTER you’ve done your map and legends, THEN you could size down AFTER rendering your type layers. This would then ‘soften the edges a bit (depending upon how much smaller you make it) and end up with a good looking drawing.
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Hecate
Feb 10, 2005
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 11:41:38 -0800, "jsm" wrote:

I’m new to Photoshop (7.0) and I’m drawing a map….any text that I use seems to come out very pixelated and looks poor. What am I doing wrong?
Using Photoshop.

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Hecate – The Real One

veni, vidi, reliqui
J
jaSPAMc
Feb 10, 2005
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 01:30:06 +0000, Hecate found these
unused words floating about:

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 11:41:38 -0800, "jsm" wrote:
I’m new to Photoshop (7.0) and I’m drawing a map….any text that I use seems to come out very pixelated and looks poor. What am I doing wrong?
Using Photoshop.
Heck, cat … eh?
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RSD99
Feb 10, 2005
You should be using Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator or Macromedia Freehand or Serif DrawPlus or Denba’s Canvas or …

In other words, maps are much better done in a VECTOR drawing program.

"J. A. Mc." wrote in message
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 01:30:06 +0000, Hecate found
these
unused words floating about:

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 11:41:38 -0800, "jsm" wrote:
I’m new to Photoshop (7.0) and I’m drawing a map….any text that I use seems to come out very pixelated and looks poor. What am I doing wrong?
Using Photoshop.
Heck, cat … eh?
H
Hecate
Feb 10, 2005
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:51:07 -0800, J. A. Mc.
wrote:

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 01:30:06 +0000, Hecate found these
unused words floating about:

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 11:41:38 -0800, "jsm" wrote:
I’m new to Photoshop (7.0) and I’m drawing a map….any text that I use seems to come out very pixelated and looks poor. What am I doing wrong?
Using Photoshop.
Heck, cat … eh?

LOL! Well he did ask what he was doing wrong..

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Hecate – The Real One

veni, vidi, reliqui
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PH
Feb 10, 2005
Hecate wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:51:07 -0800, J. A. Mc.
wrote:

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 01:30:06 +0000, Hecate found these
unused words floating about:

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 11:41:38 -0800, "jsm" wrote:
I’m new to Photoshop (7.0) and I’m drawing a map….any text that I use seems to come out very pixelated and looks poor. What am I doing wrong?
Using Photoshop.
Heck, cat … eh?

LOL! Well he did ask what he was doing wrong..

—

Hecate

Everyone has his/hers moments huh:)))

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steg
J
jaSPAMc
Feb 11, 2005
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:16:44 +0000, Hecate found these
unused words floating about:

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:51:07 -0800, J. A. Mc.
wrote:

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 01:30:06 +0000, Hecate found these
unused words floating about:

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 11:41:38 -0800, "jsm" wrote:
I’m new to Photoshop (7.0) and I’m drawing a map….any text that I use seems to come out very pixelated and looks poor. What am I doing wrong?
Using Photoshop.
Heck, cat … eh?

LOL! Well he did ask what he was doing wrong..

—

Hecate – The Real One

veni, vidi, reliqui

You can still do some pretty good maps using PS, especially if the major parts are originally in PS.

ttrr.org/ac_walk/aw_p01.html 3D map of the canyon.

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