Re: Jaggies

Rob,

Thank you so much for that helpful advice. I tried making the image twice
the size I needed and reduced it accordingly, tweaked it here and there and
bingo! away went the jaggies *big smile*. The easy way out maybe but it
worked :) 

Again, many thanks..I wish I had asked three days ago now instead of
wrestling with the darned things LOL.

Gotta love this list!!

Kym



At 12:12 AM 03/09/2000 -0500, robemell wrote:
>Hi Kim:
>
>I'm not familiar with the programs you use.  I usually use Corel
>PhotoPaint..  However your problem is familiar to me and I may have a
>suggestion for you.  I do not know what your image is to look like so I can
>only guess if this will work or not.
>
>Two things can be attempted.  Rough edges may result in a number of ways and
>when shadowed, they are highlighted even more.  Often an image is masked in
>a paint program, then distorted, filtered or whatever.  Filtering will often
>blend or in a sense shadow the image slightly to give it depth.  That's what
>a bevel is or an extrusion or whatever.  That's likely what your distortion
>filtered does.
>
>You will notice this if you close crop an image, cut it, paste it and then
>try shadowing it.  You will notice possibly rough edges and also an obvious
>white line around the image before the black shadow starts.  To avoid this
>in the process,  Once the image is mask and before you cut it you should
>reduce the mask (a choice in some paint programs) so there is no carry over
>of the background colour along with the image.  Then cut and then feather
>the object slightly which will reduce the jaggies, then shadow it and then
>combine the object to the background.
>
>So your image may have some carry over background colour around it as well
>as the jags.  Try what I have suggested above.  The other way to avoid just
>jaggies is to start with a larger image.  By starting with a much larger
>image, refineing it and then resampling it to a smaller size, the pixel
>reduction will help rid the image of the obvious jaggies.
>
>
>Rob Mellor
>Millenium Studios
>http://www.milleniumstudios.com
>http://www.fallscasino.com
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Kym Jones <kjones(at)adam.com.au>
>To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
>Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 1:24 PM
>Subject: Jaggies
>
>
>>
>> Hi guys..
>>
>> Can somebody give me what is probably some pretty basic guidance with PSP
>> here. It's not my graphics program of choice, so I only use it from time
>to
>> time for specific things...in this instance for image deformation.
>>
>> I created a patterned circle in PhotImpact and "corrugated" it, (for want
>> of a better word) using the Jama plug in. This is where I have to use the
>> "deformation/circle" tool in PSP, cut the circle in half to get the effect
>> of the top of a curtain/drape.  It looks wonderful at this point ...BUT,
>> the minute I put a shadow on it to give it some depth, the "jaggies" show
>> up between the shadow and the graphic.
>>
>> I have tried using blurring the edge with the blur tool in PhotoImpact and
>> that's long winded and not terribly successful either although using the
>> button designer with a bevel of 1 does smooth it out quite a bit it's just
>> not quite enough.
>>
>> Is there a way in PSP to smooth out the bottom edge without the pattern in
>> the graphic deteriorating/blurring and without me attacking the darned
>> thing pixel by pixel and going crosseyed ?
>>
>>
>> Help!!!...before I break something here LOL
>>
>> Kym
>>
>>
>>
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