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Mikki Wilson
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Join date: 28 Jun 2006
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03-27-2007 02:55
Hello, I have only been using Photoshop for a short time. I know this problem has to do with technique, and I have searched for the answer to my particular problem. I have a lovely Gothic R sketched out for a monogram. It looks great on paper, and I figured out the pen tool for the complex curves. I have used the stroke path to solidify the lines, and filled them in, looked up the amazing Robin Sojourner's tutorial on ridding it of the white halo, but there is one problem that I can't find a solution to. The lines that are left after the converting with stroke path are terribly jagged. I have tried blurring, a combination of bluring and sharpening, threatening the computer, even a blood sacrifice, but I am left only with the choice of either a blurry or jagged line. I love the pen tool except for that one problem  |
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Wilhelm Neumann
Runs with Crayons
Join date: 20 Apr 2006
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03-27-2007 06:46
err get a palette? or scan it in? other then that threaten the computer more something might give or it will start taking valium thereby causing the lines to be less jagged
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Mikki Wilson
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Join date: 28 Jun 2006
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03-27-2007 06:48
Valiummmmm......I hadnt thought of that  |
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Namssor Daguerre
Imitates life
Join date: 18 Feb 2004
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03-27-2007 07:40
The pen tool is vector based, meaning it can scale and change shape independent of image (pixel) resolution. It is only when the path defined by the pen is translated into pixel information that one needs to worry about the final resulting edge information. Antialiasing and feathering are both available to you when you rasterize or convert the path to a selection. <Keeping the mood> If you wear glasses or contacts, just take them off. If you don't, find someone with really bad close vision and steal their glasses. It's the poor man's antialiasing . </Keeping the mood> |
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Mikki Wilson
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Join date: 28 Jun 2006
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Eureka!!! That's it
03-27-2007 19:25
From: Namssor Daguerre The pen tool is vector based, meaning it can scale and change shape independent of image (pixel) resolution. It is only when the path defined by the pen is translated into pixel information that one needs to worry about the final resulting edge information. Antialiasing and feathering are both available to you when you rasterize or convert the path to a selection. Thank you!!!! I handn't converted to a selection before, and that was exactly my problem. I couldnt quite understand why it wasnt working the same way as converting to stroke path. Your help is so much appreciated. I was thinking in vector....Autocad, which fills new geometries nicely.....rather than in raster. Anti-aliasing is my new friend.  |