Resolution of my fonts went haywired

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parka
Jan 3, 2004
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Hello,

I’m using a 15pt font size on this graphic (attached below). The problem comes when I scale the picture up to more than 100%. The text will not appeared as dot-matix, or not anti-aliased.

How can I increase the resolution of my fonts?

I didn’t come across this problem before.

Thanks folks,
Parka

PS: Using Photoshop 7, Windows XP

PSPS: Here’s the link

< http://pic6.picturetrail.com:80/VOL170/1740741/3346713/41765 535.jpg>
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Colin_Walls
Jan 3, 2004
You should sort out your image size before you rasterize the text. I am assuming you are doing work for screen/Web usage, otherwise, don’t rasterize at all.

BTW, when viewing in PS, you will only ever get a truly accurate view at 100% – anything else is an approximation.

If th eabove doesn’t help, please outline the steps you are going through and you overall intentions.
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parka
Jan 3, 2004
Thanks for the reply,

Okay.
The steps…..

I just opened up a picture (I’ve tried both 300 and 72ppi) and pressed the Type button and started typing.

Here’s another screenshot of my problem. The top is typed in with PS CS, the lower one is with PS 7. Both are zoomed up to 400% before I pressed the Print Screen button.

Notice the top is not-anti-aliased like the one I did using PS 7?

I didn’t rasterize them. I justed saved them for web from a 2 layered PSD file (one text (un-rasterized) layer, the other image layer)

How can I switch between the resolutions?

Thanks!
Parka

< http://pic6.picturetrail.com:80/VOL170/1740741/3346713/41770 507.jpg>
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Colin_Walls
Jan 3, 2004
Save for Web does the rasterizing for you.

I am confused about this viewing at 400%. Why? If it looks OK at 100% why zoom? 100% is the only size that gets viewed on the screen.

I confess I have no idea whether PS 7 and CS do [or are supposed to do] different things here]. I am just trying to get to the heart of the problem.
RK
Rob_Keijzer
Jan 3, 2004
Parka,

This doesn’t seem to make sense. Why would you zoom up to 400 % and then make a screen shot. If I understand you well that is…

If you want the thing to be 400 percent then start with a canvas of that size. As Collin stated the only true representation of the image is at 100 %. You only zoom out/in to see the whole/make precise edits.

And don’t use print to screen, just save it.

My steps would be:

Open a canvas 5 times larger as the target image.
make all edits/types/layers etc.
Occasionally save (as .psd)
Maintain all layers and don’t rasterize text.
Flatten the image and resize to the target size
Save for web.
Don’t save the flatten/resized image back onto the psd (again maintain this as a layered big image; it’s your master).

Rob
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Colin_Walls
Jan 3, 2004
Rob

I think the printscreen was just to illustrate the problem to us.

I’d agree with your steps – carefully doing all the resizing and rasterizing by hand, before uisng SFW, is what would make me comfortable.
RK
Rob_Keijzer
Jan 3, 2004
Ooops. I meant Colin, not Collin.

I won’t make any spelling mistakes anymore
I won’t make any spelling mistakes anymore

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Rob
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Colin_Walls
Jan 3, 2004
Rob

If I had a £/$/€ for every time my name is spelt that way [usually by Americans, who have some excuse], I’d be a rich man!
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parka
Jan 3, 2004
Hey guys,

The printscreen is to illustrate my problems, like Colin Walls said. I zoomed to 400% so that you guys can see a bigger picture.

For the 2nd jpeg I posted, when scaled back to the normal 100% view, the upper font will still look dot-matrix, which is what I don’t want. The lower font will be very sharp because of the anti-aliasing.

The problem I have here is the anti-aliasing problem.
Photoshop CS doesn’t give me anti-aliased fonts (the default that PS 7 gives me) when I type some text. And that’s even if I used the same font size, kerning…I must have left out something.

How can I switch between anti-aliased to non-anti-aliased?
CW
Colin_Walls
Jan 3, 2004
Does CS have the same anti-aliasing pull-down as PS 7 [on the status bar when you select the type tool]? I guess it’ll remember what you last selected.

This is kind of obvious – I assumed that you had looked up "anti alias" in the help before coming to the forum …

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