Re: Smoothing Ruff Edges

by "Michael Zimmermann" <green(at)myna.com>

Date:	Sat, 06 Dec 1997 09:25:27 -0500
To:	"S.Joseph" <bereah(at)tmn.com>, "HTML Writers' Guilde Graphics List" <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
In-Reply-To:	tmn
	todo: View Thread, Original

At 08:39 AM 12/6/97 -0500, S.Joseph wrote:
>How do I smooth out the edges of the characters on the graphic
>saohdr.gif found at http://140.90.252.17?  It's the graphic at the top
>of the page.

actually, to be technically correct, there's no way of smoothing the image,
because of the limitations of the monitor hardware, and the nature of pixel
technology...but to make it /appear/ smoother (i'm assuming you mean the
text on 
http://140.90.252.17/images/saohdr.gif ) there are a few things to do...

I'd start from scratch again witht the text...The SAO seems ok, but if
you're not happy with it, you can try resizing/sampling the image larger,
throw on a delicate blur, and resample it back to the original size.

with the white text, make sure that whatever application you're using has
antialiasing on.

In Photoshop, this is a checkbox in the text dialogue box... (i think?  my
mind's a bit scattered, and i may not be remebering correctly)

antialiasing is basically a way to -- through the use of colour and the
eye's natural inclinations -- 'split' a pixel, so as to get rid of the
jaggies that you see on your text. you'll also get these 'jaggies' if you
enlarge an image, especially if you use a lower-quality program (read:
anything but Photoshop)

=)

Hope this helps, 
Green

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