Adobe Aliasing Alarm with Text!
Something was puzzling me quite a bit as I tried to make some logo’s for some sites. I was working in an older version of Adobe Photoshop, mostly because it gives me what I need at my remedial level but also because I haven’t converted all my currency to gold so I could afford the new version. Anyway, its only a two year old version.
So, I would make logo’s in Photoshop with text. Mostly to by pass the CSS garbage some CMS applications like Joomla make you crawl through to have a meaningful looking site name. But when I would upload the logos onto the sites they would render with severe aliasing. Severe!
The V’s and O’s and anything with diagonals and curves had all these zig zag lines – aliasing. I would just simply create a canvas in Phootoshop, add text withe the text tool, and export for the web.
After a few tries I realized, maybe the dithering and smoothing the “export for the web” selection added on wasn’t working. So, I just simply did a “Save As” and chose my preferred format (PNG) and voila! the text-based logos looked nice and crisp.