Scaling without anti-aliasing, a shortcut?

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janet_schowengerdt
Feb 5, 2008
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Hiya.

Sometimes I need to scale an item without it being reinterpreted with anti-aliasing. I know of one way to do this, which is to choose "Nearest Neighbor (preserve hard edges)" under the Image Interpolation settings in the Preferences dialog.

The frustration is that I don’t need it often enough to keep that as my permanent setting, but rather need to be able to hop into it at certain times.

Does anyone know of a shortcut method for turning off anti-aliasing while transforming an object?

I’m hoping there is some CS3 method I don’t know about…

Thanks!
Jan
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spydersweb34
Feb 6, 2008
Hello Jan

I have struggled with scripting these sorts of things, but basically the answer is YES you can do it. The easiest way to do this would be by recording an action, which is photoshop’s version of the macro recorder. The easiest/surest way to achieve this would be to record a series of actions at different percentage enlargement/reduction. The next level of programming would allow you to program in "stops" which are pauses that allow for user input during the running of an action. I myself have found Adobe’s Actions in this respect not too user friendly. I would suggest you get a tutorial on PS Actions and learn how to work them. This is the best I can offer you, that it is possible.

Thom

PS – if you are really into actions there is a program called ‘script listener’ which records the underlying javascript (or just plain java, not sure/ not programmer) commands for any given set of moves you do. I am informed by photoshop intelligentia that once you know the underlying code, it is relatively easy to write your own scripts which can incorporate very complex sequences. As I said, I don’t program but I use these scripts – a lot. One of them is called "TLR Professional Sharpening". It’s truly a pro sharpening solution.

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