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JCathcart
Joined: 23 Jun 2008
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 Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:32 am Post subject: Strange text issue |
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Hi, I tried looking for an answer to this but I came up with nothing, so here goes...forgive me if there is an obvious answer to this...I'm a novice photoshopper.
Anyhow, everything was fine until I downloaded and opened an animated .gif in Photoshop 7.0 for manipulation. I'm not sure how .gifs work, so I just used the one frame of the animation that came up when I opened it.
I did the job an everything turned out fine.
However, from now on when I use the text function in Photoshop, the text always comes out pixelated and jagged. I cant figure out how to fix this...any help? |
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Gallo_Pinto
Joined: 15 Jul 2005
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Location: BC, Canada
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When you have the text tool selected from the tools panel, and you're on teh layer that has the text on it, you should see the contextual bar along the top of photoshop has 4 boxes to select option. On the left is the font, then there's a dropdown to select bold or italic, then the size, and the remaining box has the options "None, Sharp, Crisp, Strong, and Smooth". If this is set to "None" then that's your problem. Try "Smooth" for starters, in many cases you'll find that "Strong" and "Crisp" work well.
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JCathcart
Joined: 23 Jun 2008
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Thanks, but I'm afraid that's not it...
I'm afraid the text still turns out pixelated regardless of the setting in that box.
It seems more like some other graphical setting must have changed when I worked in another file type?
Maybe I should just reinstall the program...unless there's a way to default settings??? |
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Gallo_Pinto
Joined: 15 Jul 2005
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Holding ctrl-alt-shift while you click on the photoshop shortcut to start it up will make it ask you if you'd like to reset the prefs.
Also one more stupid suggestion, make sure yo're looking at the text at 100%, 50%, 25% etc.. zoom.
Strange numbers like 33.3% will make it look bad.
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JCathcart
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Thanks for filling me in opn the ctrl+alt+shift trick. Resetting the settings totally took care of the problem. Not sure what it was, but it definitely was something on the actual text and not just the view in the program. It would turn up in things I printed and the DVD menus I was making. Glad it's gone. Wish I knew what it was that caused it, though. |
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