Threshold Mode

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Andy Martin
Jan 20, 2004
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Hi

This is becoming infuriating.

Copied one of the link buttons on http://www.yousoftware.com/ today and tried to recreate it (or something similar) in Photoshop 7. Couldn’t work out how their button’s ‘top dots’ were more defined than mine and tried tweaking things in the brush palate eventually making my own brush of 1px x 1px and a spacing of 400%. Looks ‘okay’ but still not as crisp as the original button when the size is maximised.

The only aspect that I notice which differs from mine is that when the brush tool is selected, the mode on my image says ‘normal’ but the mode on the website image says ‘Threshold’. Hmmm ….. spooky!

I’ve looked through the help section and after 15 mins, I have a vague idea of what it’s about but still don’t know why the website’s mode comes up as ‘Threshold’ and I don’t have the option. All I really want is to be able to create a line of spaced out 1px dots that are well defined/crisp.

Any help would be much appreciated

Andy

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edjh
Jan 20, 2004
Andy Martin wrote:

Hi

This is becoming infuriating.

Copied one of the link buttons on http://www.yousoftware.com/ today and tried to recreate it (or something similar) in Photoshop 7. Couldn’t work out how their button’s ‘top dots’ were more defined than mine and tried tweaking things in the brush palate eventually making my own brush of 1px x 1px and a spacing of 400%. Looks ‘okay’ but still not as crisp as the original button when the size is maximised.

The only aspect that I notice which differs from mine is that when the brush tool is selected, the mode on my image says ‘normal’ but the mode on the website image says ‘Threshold’. Hmmm ….. spooky!

That’s because it’s a gif in Indexed color mode and Threshold and Dissolve are the only available choices. It was undoubtedly made in RGB mode to begin with.
I’ve looked through the help section and after 15 mins, I have a vague idea of what it’s about but still don’t know why the website’s mode comes up as ‘Threshold’ and I don’t have the option. All I really want is to be able to create a line of spaced out 1px dots that are well defined/crisp.
Any help would be much appreciated
Zoom in and look at the antialiasing pattern. Try a circle marquee instead of a brush.

Andy


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