Help with jaggies

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Nov 17, 2007
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I’m having a hard time figuring out how to get rid of the jagged pixels on his image I have created for a logo. The Red area is just a stroke on the blue textured layer. Any help would be appreciated.
http://www.cepphas.com/bd/agbclogo.jpg thanks blah

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Tacit
Nov 18, 2007
In article <iuH%i.30$>, "blah" wrote:

I’m having a hard time figuring out how to get rid of the jagged pixels on his image I have created for a logo. The Red area is just a stroke on the blue textured layer. Any help would be appreciated.
http://www.cepphas.com/bd/agbclogo.jpg thanks blah

The area is jaggy because it is too low resolution. I assume you’re making this for print.

Unfortunately, you’ve already started down the wrong path. You used Photoshop. Photoshop is not te right tool for logos; logos need to be used at many different sizes, and they need to be able to print crisply and smoothly at any size. That means using Illustrator, not Photoshop.

Had you made the logo in Illustrator, it would print razor-sharp at any size, even if you made it the size of a billboard.

I suggest you scrap the logo and re-create it correctly in Illustrator. If you must use Photoshop for some reason, scrap the logo and re-make it at a much higher resolution.


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jaSPAMc
Nov 18, 2007
"blah" found these unused words:

I’m having a hard time figuring out how to get rid of the jagged pixels on his image I have created for a logo. The Red area is just a stroke on the blue textured layer. Any help would be appreciated.
http://www.cepphas.com/bd/agbclogo.jpg thanks blah
IMHO, for that one, you’ll have to put it onto the actual background you’ll use.
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SpaceGirl
Nov 18, 2007
tacit wrote:
In article <iuH%i.30$>, "blah" wrote:

I’m having a hard time figuring out how to get rid of the jagged pixels on his image I have created for a logo. The Red area is just a stroke on the blue textured layer. Any help would be appreciated.
http://www.cepphas.com/bd/agbclogo.jpg thanks blah

The area is jaggy because it is too low resolution. I assume you’re making this for print.

Unfortunately, you’ve already started down the wrong path. You used Photoshop. Photoshop is not te right tool for logos; logos need to be used at many different sizes, and they need to be able to print crisply and smoothly at any size. That means using Illustrator, not Photoshop.
Had you made the logo in Illustrator, it would print razor-sharp at any size, even if you made it the size of a billboard.

I suggest you scrap the logo and re-create it correctly in Illustrator. If you must use Photoshop for some reason, scrap the logo and re-make it at a much higher resolution.

I’d second that. You should always work your art up at the largest possible size if using any raster based tool, like PhotoShop. That way you only have to scale the image down, rather than up, and jaggies are less of an issue.

For logos, always use Illustrator as the size then doesn’t matter.

Trace the logo inside Illustrator, or recreate it by hand.



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blah
Nov 18, 2007
I’m currently experimenting with the pen tool in Photoshop. I don’t have Illustrator. This is for the web only, not for print logo. Tx Blah "Sir F. A. Rien" wrote in message
"blah" found these unused words:

I’m having a hard time figuring out how to get rid of the jagged pixels on his image I have created for a logo. The Red area is just a stroke on the blue textured layer. Any help would be appreciated.
http://www.cepphas.com/bd/agbclogo.jpg thanks blah
IMHO, for that one, you’ll have to put it onto the actual background you’ll
use.
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jaSPAMc
Nov 18, 2007
Yes, and on the web you -=will=- have a background.

If you make the PS ‘Background’ layer that of the page, then in a separate layer do your pen work, (save for later changes), flatten, select the design and slightly feather, the jaggies will smooth out.

This is done by the blending of the background and the design. Were you to export in GIF for transparency, you’d have jaggies. Fact of life with pixels on anything but horizontal or vertical.

"blah" found these unused words:

I’m currently experimenting with the pen tool in Photoshop. I don’t have Illustrator. This is for the web only, not for print logo. Tx Blah "Sir F. A. Rien" wrote in message
"blah" found these unused words:

I’m having a hard time figuring out how to get rid of the jagged pixels on his image I have created for a logo. The Red area is just a stroke on the blue textured layer. Any help would be appreciated.
http://www.cepphas.com/bd/agbclogo.jpg thanks blah
IMHO, for that one, you’ll have to put it onto the actual background you’ll
use.

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