"Hymer" <[REMOVE].net> wrote in message

I can get anialiasing on and my output is the Web. I have to reduce it down
to a very small 20 px and it looks ragged. Also, I am not sure how to "stroke" it.
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Any circle is going to jaggie at 20x20. It's those damn square pixels!
But this is a good lesson on logo design. Don't use shapes that don't resize well. Simpler is better.

I worked for a company whose logo created nothing but nightmares in reproduction and resizing because it was just too complicated. It was an "ok" design otherwise but already established when I arrived on the scene.
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- gpsman

Yes, I see what you mean. Two of the logo's were from professional

societies

so I didn't have a choice.

However, I did solve the problem in a Rube Goldberg way. I was able to get

pretty good anti aliased circle in Corel Draw. So I set the whole thing up in Corel Draw and pasted it into Photoshop. Then I was able to use the

magic

wand and magic eraser to make it a transparency.

Thanks to everyone for helping.

Bob

Ahh... another CD user. Yeah, I do the same thing myself quite often, using Draw for all or part of a design. Actually, when it comes to things like logotypes, letterhead, business cards, etc., a vector program such as Corel Draw really is the tool to use, IMHO. Such designs are meant to be fairly simple, preferably symbolic, easy to remember, and easy to scale for reproduction in multiple sizes, either in color or greyscale, exactly the kind of thing for which illustration tools are best suited.

Photoshop is certainly an excellent tool, and there are many things I would never even attempt in a vector program that are a snap (or at least achievable ;-) in Photoshop. OTOH, there are things for which Photoshop is simply not the best tool around. I think that logo design probably fits that category.

Cheers,
Scott

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