Re: text

Regarding the blurriness of small text in Photoshop.
(sorry, I must have thrown this thread out cause I don't
have the original messages.)

Friends and I tested this (on a boring Saturday at work
:), and found that Photoshop 4 (at least that's what we
tried it in) will try to position text exactly where you
position it, even between pixels. For small anti-aliased
text that is not centered on pixels, this means that you
may not have ANY pixels which are the actual color, but
that each side may just be anitaliased with no solid color
in the middle.

Not sure if that explanation makes sense. Ok, take a one
pixel width antialiased letter stem. If you place it
"inbetween" pixels, Photoshop does not care and will just
antialias it and THEN chop it up into pixels, leaving you
without a pixel of the color the letter is supposed to be.
Unmagnified, this looks like it is unsharp.


Luke

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