need help with antialiasing???

[elboogie2008]

Hello

My name is elboogie2008 and I am excited to be a part of this wonderful forum with fellow photoshop users. I am new to the forum so I hope to learn alot and possibly pass on the knowledge to some one else who could use the help one day. I am trying to find out a solution to this problem with antialiasing on a picture I am doing. I tried to make a cloud with the circular selection tool. I succeeded at that but then i filled the circles and that was fine but then i added a picture that i did inside the cloud and i noticed that there are jagged lines all around the cloud as in the pics. Now i know that there are ways to making this much more smoother and better looking. this picture will be going for print. If any one can maybe give me some insite on to what I might be doing wrong or have a better way of acheiving this I would greatly apreciate it.

elboogie2008

P.S I apologize I cannot upload because of an issue with my internet service.

[ramelo]

Hello, if you have a reply for this ... kindly send me a "private message" I'm looking for a solution on this too. Thanks!

[sbdb]

Hello, if you have a reply for this ... kindly send me a "private message" I'm looking for a solution on this too. Thanks!

That's not what a forum is for, solutions should be discussed in public.

[heyber]

Without accesss to the original typeface, that is going to be a lot of work. Introducing proper AA into already "baked" pixels is almost impossible. You'd need some sort of fancy edge detection algorithm the rebuilds the vectors. One way around your dilemme might be to completely rebuild everything. Using the selection tools, you can remove the background, then use slight feathering on the selection to soften the edges, followed by filling the selection with a solid color. An even better way would be to convert the selection to paths, then fine-tune them to match the original font as closely as possible. Once the clean paths exist, they can be used as a vector mask on a color solid, generating proper AA plus being resizable without loss in quality. Still, depending on how many characters you need to treat, just buying the original font might cause less headaches.

[viki88]

setting your AA on is done by opening the control panel of your graphics card, whether is a NVidia or an ATI, first apply 2 or 4 setting as AA has an impact on your fps also ... so it's a matter of compromise except if you have a very good one Very Happy