Turning off/removing anti-aliasing on the pen tool AFTER outlining an image

[Stealthrt]

Hey i just made an outline of a drawing with the pen tool. I finished and i started coloring the image and noticed that the Anti-Aliasing was on during the time i did the outline so now i have a border around where i filled in color that's transparent.
Is there any way (shy from doing the outline all over again with the "anti-aliasing" box un-checked) that i can just turn all those lines to non-anti-aliasing lines?


CS6 is what i am working in.
Thanks!

 

[IamSam]

Hi Stealth, Where is the anti-alias box located for the PEN TOOL?

 

[ALB68]

I would be interested to know that also. Thanks for asking.

 

[ibclare]

My suggestion is too ctl/cmd click the selection you made or the path, and refine the selection. Otherwise, if it's a path, open it, choose the white select arrow and move the anchor points inside a bit. That might take care of the problem. Also, you need to use a high resolution image size. If it is a vector type image with pixel color fill, you can easily do this without losing image quality but fixing those edges up way better. If the color blurs, but it shouldn't because PS can guess what pixels to use, solid grey. Images don't enlarge really well (without cautious enlargement) because PS has to guess where to put the extra pixels and images can get screwy or blurred as a result.

What tool did you use to make your outline?

 

[Stealthrt]

My suggestion is too ctl/cmd click the selection you made or the path, and refine the selection. Otherwise, if it's a path, open it, choose the white select arrow and move the anchor points inside a bit. That might take care of the problem. Also, you need to use a high resolution image size. If it is a vector type image with pixel color fill, you can easily do this without losing image quality but fixing those edges up way better. If the color blurs, but it shouldn't because PS can guess what pixels to use, solid grey. Images don't enlarge really well (without cautious enlargement) because PS has to guess where to put the extra pixels and images can get screwy or blurred as a result.

What tool did you use to make your outline?

I used a brush for the outline. Size of 4.

 

[ibclare]

Ah, that explains the anti-alaising mystery.

If you are trying to trace an image, you will not be able to do a satisfactory job with the brush. Of course, you can always use the shift key to make straight lines. And never do it on the same layer as the image. However, it is advisable to make a path. Once you have the path, you can stroke it or you can move the anchors. Very easy to use the pen for this type of outline/selection. Once you have something like a brush line and go to perhaps select it, you will have an outline of the stroke, the width of the brush you used, not the inside of the selection -- should you need to do this. With the pen tool, you aren't dealing with pixels, but an invisible guideline for adding pixels or making cuts, masks, etc.

 

[IamSam]

Thanks Clare, this is where your experience pays off. Terminology and lack of information can definitely change the meaning of a question. It makes sense now. I should have concluded that we were not talking about the Pen Tool, but I was afraid that I was missing something, hence my unanswered question.

 

[ALB68]

Just to add something here..When using the pen tool to make selections, there is a check box for anti-aliasing in the box that pops up when you choose selection...if you want the edge of the result to be smooth -check it. Also change the amount of feather to 0 pixels (unless your wanting the edges to be feathered of course). Try these methods and make a new layer (Ctrl+J) for each and compare the edges to see the difference.

 

[Stealthrt]

Hum.. not sure if you follow what i am doing. I did the outline with the pen and then Stroke Path and selected Brush. That gave me a brush outline of what i used the pen to draw my line. This is what produced the line and the anti-aliasing effect on that line.

If i used the pencil instead of the brush then it did not have the anti-aliasing problem - but it also did not smooth out the line that i drew with the pen as well.



The image on the left is with the brush and on the right, its the pencil.

 

[ibclare]

When you stroke the path, for a cleaner stroke, go to edit, stroke, then you won't be using brush or pencil.