Clean-edged shapes

What you are referring to is called anti-aliasing, and cannot be deactivated for vector shapes. If you want aliased edges (stairstepping), then use pixels instead by selecting ‘Solid Fill’ in the Options Bar. Similarly for text, turn anti-aliasing off.

If it is just to please yourself, try a higher resolution on your monitor.

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What you are referring to is called anti-aliasing, and cannot be deactivated for vector shapes. If you want aliased edges (stairstepping), then use pixels instead by selecting ‘Solid Fill’ in the Options Bar. Similarly for text, turn anti-aliasing off.
If it is just to please yourself, try a higher resolution on your monitor.

I’m a newbie so pardon my inexperience. If you can’t turn anti-aliasing off, why is my co-worker able to draw shapes with clean edges? How do you turn the anti-aliasing off? In PS Help, I can’t find any mention of "Solid Fill" in connection with the Options bar and none of the tool tips indicate it. How do I find this option? FYI – I set my monitor to 1600 x 1200 and it still looks blurry.

Thanks for your help!

On the left side of the options bar are three icons in a row. The first one will give you a shape layer ( with a fill), the middle one will draw a path (that you will have to fill or stroke) and the 3rd one will fill with pixels. If you choose the 3rd one, you have the choice of checking or un-checking Anti-aliased.

"Julie Leake" wrote in message

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What you are referring to is called anti-aliasing, and cannot be deactivated for vector shapes. If you want aliased edges (stairstepping), then use pixels instead by selecting ‘Solid Fill’ in the Options Bar. Similarly for text, turn anti-aliasing off.
If it is just to please yourself, try a higher resolution on your monitor.

I’m a newbie so pardon my inexperience. If you can’t turn anti-aliasing off, why is my co-worker able to draw shapes with clean edges? How do you turn the anti-aliasing off? In PS Help, I can’t find any mention of "Solid Fill" in connection with the Options bar and none of the tool tips indicate it. How do I find this option? FYI – I set my monitor to 1600 x 1200 and it still looks blurry.

Thanks for your help!

Thank you! I can now draw clean shapes. One down and one to go. How do I get my text to be clean?

wnor wrote:

On the left side of the options bar are three icons in a row. The first one will give you a shape layer ( with a fill), the middle one will draw a path (that you will have to fill or stroke) and the 3rd one will fill with pixels. If you choose the 3rd one, you have the choice of checking or un-checking Anti-aliased.

"Julie Leake" wrote in message

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What you are referring to is called anti-aliasing, and cannot be deactivated for vector shapes. If you want aliased edges (stairstepping), then use pixels instead by selecting ‘Solid Fill’ in the Options Bar. Similarly for text, turn anti-aliasing off.
If it is just to please yourself, try a higher resolution on your monitor.

I’m a newbie so pardon my inexperience. If you can’t turn anti-aliasing off, why is my co-worker able to draw shapes with clean edges? How do you turn the anti-aliasing off? In PS Help, I can’t find any mention of "Solid Fill" in connection with the Options bar and none of the tool tips indicate it. How do I find this option? FYI – I set my monitor to 1600 x 1200 and it still looks blurry.

Thanks for your help!

Julie, after you select the Text tool, look at the options bar about half way, there are two a’s with a pull down menu. I usually keep mine on sharp.

"Julie Leake" wrote in message

Thank you! I can now draw clean shapes. One down and one to go. How do I get my text to be clean?

wnor wrote:

On the left side of the options bar are three icons in a row. The first

one

will give you a shape layer ( with a fill), the middle one will draw a

path

(that you will have to fill or stroke) and the 3rd one will fill with pixels. If you choose the 3rd one, you have the choice of checking or un-checking Anti-aliased.

"Julie Leake" wrote in message

wrote:

What you are referring to is called anti-aliasing, and cannot be deactivated for vector shapes. If you want aliased edges (stairstepping), then use pixels instead by selecting ‘Solid Fill’ in the Options Bar. Similarly for text, turn anti-aliasing off.
If it is just to please yourself, try a higher resolution on your monitor.

I’m a newbie so pardon my inexperience. If you can’t turn anti-aliasing off, why is my co-worker able to draw shapes with clean edges? How do you turn the anti-aliasing off? In PS Help, I can’t find any mention of "Solid Fill" in connection with the Options bar and none of the tool tips indicate it. How do I find this option? FYI – I set my monitor to 1600 x 1200 and it still looks blurry.

Thanks for your help!

"Julie Leake" wrote in message

Thank you! I can now draw clean shapes. One down and one to go. How do I get my text to be clean?

wnor wrote:

On the left side of the options bar are three icons in a row. The first

one

will give you a shape layer ( with a fill), the middle one will draw a

path

(that you will have to fill or stroke) and the 3rd one will fill with pixels. If you choose the 3rd one, you have the choice of checking or un-checking Anti-aliased.

"Julie Leake" wrote in message

wrote:

What you are referring to is called anti-aliasing, and cannot be deactivated for vector shapes. If you want aliased edges (stairstepping), then use pixels instead by selecting ‘Solid Fill’ in the Options Bar. Similarly for text, turn anti-aliasing off.
If it is just to please yourself, try a higher resolution on your monitor.

I’m a newbie so pardon my inexperience. If you can’t turn anti-aliasing off, why is my co-worker able to draw shapes with clean edges? How do you turn the anti-aliasing off? In PS Help, I can’t find any mention of "Solid Fill" in connection with the Options bar and none of the tool tips indicate it. How do I find this option? FYI – I set my monitor to 1600 x 1200 and it still looks blurry.

Thanks for your help!

When you get close to text, when it’s anti-
aliased it looks murky but farther away or
at greater resolution it looks better, much.
What you call clean text looks jaggie at
higher resolutions. Sorry to tell you something
you already know, if you do. : -)