sharp text in a grphic?

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BigT
Jun 28, 2003
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Hi, I’m admittedly a newbie to PS and not very talented when it comes to graphics. Can you help with a problem?

My client wants a plain graphic in place of text. See two examples at www.accident999.co.uk/demopics.html

It must be those words, justified, and about that size, and all graphic, no text. It is for web use and will display mostly at 800 x 600 resolution.

The two examples look ugly, any way to sharpen the text in a graphic? It’s Arial 12 and 15 regular, no anti-aliasing as it looks worse if I do. Saving as a jpg rather than a gif is no improvement and triples the file size.

Any advice please? Is this as good as it can get?
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Flo Nelson
Jun 28, 2003
If the text did not need to be justified, plain html text would be a lot crisper. There is a CSS (cascading stylesheet) style for justified text, supported by modern browsers – see
http://www.spiderpro.com/bu/bucssh001.html

Flo

"BigT" wrote in message
Hi, I’m admittedly a newbie to PS and not very talented when it comes to
graphics. Can you help with a problem?
My client wants a plain graphic in place of text. See two examples at www.accident999.co.uk/demopics.html

It must be those words, justified, and about that size, and all graphic,
no text. It is for web use and will display mostly at 800 x 600 resolution.
The two examples look ugly, any way to sharpen the text in a graphic? It’s
Arial 12 and 15 regular, no anti-aliasing as it looks worse if I do. Saving as a jpg rather than a gif is no improvement and triples the file size.
Any advice please? Is this as good as it can get?
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YrbkMgr
Jun 28, 2003
If that was created and rasterized at it’s destined resoltuion, then yes, kinda.

You can enhance it by doing a couple of things. If it’s me, and it HAS to be a graphic, I would take that finished graphic and duplicate the layer with a multiply blend mode., Then I would run various sharpening methods on it. I usually like a combo of USM with a high pass sharpening.

I’m not certain if there’s a way to improve it before it becomes rasterized, but one thing is for sure, I would do ALL the work at the destined resolution, no resizing.

Peace,
Tony
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BigT
Jun 29, 2003
Thanks Tony!

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