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dosomethin888
How the heck do you apply text to icons without making it smudgy or blurry?

How does the text on this icon look:



? Looks a little funky to me.
Harp
When you're typing your text, make sure your anti alias is set to Smooth.
This is right next to the size selector. thumbsup.gif

Also, make sure you always save as a PNG.
One more thing, it may be the stroke making it look this way. A large stroke on small text doesn't work well biggrin.gif
dosomethin888
QUOTE(YukkaPukka @ Jan 17 2009, 07:15 AM) *
When you're typing your text, make sure your anti alias is set to Smooth.
This is right next to the size selector. thumbsup.gif

Also, make sure you always save as a PNG.
One more thing, it may be the stroke making it look this way. A large stroke on small text doesn't work well biggrin.gif

Thank you so much :D How do you adjust the stroke?
Harp
When you right-click the layer, and go to blending options, and go to stroke, under structure, it says "Size". Adjust it from there biggrin.gif
dosomethin888
QUOTE(YukkaPukka @ Jan 17 2009, 02:27 PM) *
When you right-click the layer, and go to blending options, and go to stroke, under structure, it says "Size". Adjust it from there biggrin.gif

Is that for photoshop? Because I use Paint Shop Pro and I cant find that
Harp
Ahh, I don't know how to on PSP. Sorry!
dosomethin888
Lol thats ok thanks anyway :D
manny-the-dino
QUOTE(dosomethin888 @ Jan 16 2009, 11:11 PM) *
How the heck do you apply text to icons without making it smudgy or blurry?

How does the text on this icon look:

http://i40.tinypic.com/dysj14.jpg

? Looks a little funky to me.

I think the text looks alright but it does look a bit funky because of the stroke. It looks a bit choppy on the edges. I agree on the making sure the anti alias is set to smooth & the lowering the stroke amount. This link should help you with you stroke settings in PSP. thumbsup.gif
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