Trouble keeping distinct solid edges

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Nathan Sokalski
Apr 30, 2006
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Almost all of my graphics have solid distinct edges (they go straight from one color to another, no blended or automatically generated colors) until the very end when and if I use any effects or gradients. However, I seem to be having trouble using many of Photoshop 7.0’s features (such as scaling) without it adding unwanted colors. Until I am basically done and ready to use effects, the only colors I want to see on my graphic are the ones I have specifically chosen to do stuff with. How can I get Photoshop to stop giving me all these colors that are blended, have their opacity modified, etc. when all I want to do is something like scale a selection? Thanks. —
Nathan Sokalski

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XCATivor
Apr 30, 2006
"Nathan Sokalski" wrote in message

Almost all of my graphics have solid distinct edges (they go straight from one color to another, no blended or automatically generated colors)

sounds like you should use Illustrator instead of Photoshop. No scaling problems there 🙂

… How can I get Photoshop to stop giving me all these colors that are blended, have their opacity modified, etc. when all I want to do is something like scale a selection? Thanks.

you can try
Image size>Resample Image: Nearest Neighbor
won’t give you new colors, but it’s the worst method for scaling (in most cases).

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Mike Russell
Apr 30, 2006
"Nathan Sokalski" wrote in message
Almost all of my graphics have solid distinct edges (they go straight from one color to another, no blended or automatically generated colors) until the very end when and if I use any effects or gradients. However, I seem to be having trouble using many of Photoshop 7.0’s features (such as scaling) without it adding unwanted colors. Until I am basically done and ready to use effects, the only colors I want to see on my graphic are the ones I have specifically chosen to do stuff with. How can I get Photoshop to stop giving me all these colors that are blended, have their opacity modified, etc. when all I want to do is something like scale a selection? Thanks.

Set Image Interpolation to Nearest Neighbor in Edit>Prefs>General . Normally this option is too jaggy for photographs, but it may be just what you need for this application. If that doesn’t cut it, you may need a vector based app such as Illustrator.
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Tacit
May 1, 2006
In article <5I55g.4931$>,
"Nathan Sokalski" wrote:

Almost all of my graphics have solid distinct edges (they go straight from one color to another, no blended or automatically generated colors) until the very end when and if I use any effects or gradients. However, I seem to be having trouble using many of Photoshop 7.0’s features (such as scaling) without it adding unwanted colors.

Correct. That is the nature of raster (pixel) images.

You can not scale, rotate, or perform any other operation that resamples (changes the number of pixels or maps one set of pixels onto another) while simultaneously keeping hard edges AND keeping gradients.

If you change your preferences to use Nearest Neighbor interpolation rather than Bicubic, you will keep your hard edges, but gradients and such will be affected.

It sounds to me like the work you are doing should not be done in Photoshop, but rather in a vector program like Illustrator.

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