Dirty outline: How to solve that?

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Charles
May 5, 2004
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I have another problem. I am retouching
icons for an OS. I use PNG format to store them. I want them to have transparent pixels outside but it looks ugly, although I applied a feather effect to smoothen the border, but there are these ugly white pixels outside the logos when the background is a dark color. Does any one have a tip to turn this outline smooth and invisible whatever bgnd color I set ?
http://www.landemaine.com/question.html (see the ugly outline) Thanks again!
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mrclean
May 5, 2004
In article <c7bflr$21g3l$>,
says…
I have another problem. I am retouching
icons for an OS. I use PNG format to store them. I want them to have transparent pixels outside but it looks ugly, although I applied a feather effect to smoothen the border, but there are these ugly white pixels outside the logos when the background is a dark color. Does any one have a tip to turn this outline smooth and invisible whatever bgnd color I set ?
http://www.landemaine.com/question.html (see the ugly outline) Thanks again!

Looks like you need to learn about anti-aliasing…
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Charles
May 5, 2004
But if it were an anti-alising issue, the outline would be the same color as the object itself, or am I mistaken ?
Because I deleted the pixels around the logos with anti-alising turned on + feather=2px …
Thanks,

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In article <c7bflr$21g3l$>,
says…
I have another problem. I am retouching
icons for an OS. I use PNG format to store them. I want them to
have
transparent pixels outside but it looks ugly, although I applied a feather effect to smoothen the border, but there are these ugly
white
pixels outside the logos when the background is a dark color. Does
any
one have a tip to turn this outline smooth and invisible whatever
bgnd
color I set ?
http://www.landemaine.com/question.html (see the ugly outline) Thanks again!

Looks like you need to learn about anti-aliasing…
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mrclean
May 6, 2004
In article <c7bs5b$25ohc$>,
says…
But if it were an anti-alising issue, the outline would be the same color as the object itself, or am I mistaken ?
Because I deleted the pixels around the logos with anti-alising turned on + feather=2px …
Thanks,

You must set the background to the color that you are going to use for the background before removing it. In this case, #4B5370.

Otherwise, you will always have "jaggies".

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