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Am I right in thinking that if you're going to create a text graphic in photoshop (a logo or something) you need to do something to it to make sure it renders sharply at all sizes?

Any ideas please :)
 
Saving the logo in eps format will enable it to be shrunk / enlarged with hardly any degradation to the said logo's quality.
 
or create a brush for your logo and then adjust the brush size to suit. there's a tutorial about it on here somewhere i think.. i'll have a look
 
For variable size text a path is better, it scales without getting jaggies on the edges.
 
mho said:
Saving the logo in eps format will enable it to be shrunk / enlarged with hardly any degradation to the said logo's quality.
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Im not sure I can do that in Photoshop (CS5)?

leftcurl said:
or create a brush for your logo and then adjust the brush size to suit. there's a tutorial about it on here somewhere i think.. i'll have a look
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Thanks that certainly works for images, but would also like to use it in word docs.

swanseamale47 said:
For variable size text a path is better, it scales without getting jaggies on the edges.
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Could you please explain any further, and will that work if you use the logo in a word doc too?
 
treeman said:
Im not sure I can do that in Photoshop (CS5)?



Thanks that certainly works for images, but would also like to use it in word docs.



Could you please explain any further, and will that work if you use the logo in a word doc too?
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I'm afraid I don't use word so I don't know exactly how that would work, I suspect that the path would have to be rasterised (turned into pixles) first to work in word.
 
Save it as a Photoshop eps file and it will scale text and images without producing jaggies as the font is held within the file format, eps stands for encapsulated postscript.

DTP have been using it for ever and its industry standard within publishing and reproduction areas were just lagging behind a bit in photography.
 
mho said:
Save it as a Photoshop eps file and it will scale text and images without producing jaggies as the font is held within the file format, eps stands for encapsulated postscript.

DTP have been using it for ever and its industry standard within publishing and reproduction areas were just lagging behind a bit in photography.
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Ah cool thanks, I was just looking for EPS, not Photoshop EPS :bonk:

Cheers :)
 
mho said:
DTP have been using it for ever and its industry standard within publishing and reproduction areas were just lagging behind a bit in photography.
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Any idea how I can save it so the text is on a transparent background, currently its changing the background to white.

****ignore that, I've just found out eps doesn't support transparency, back to the drawing board!****
 
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No, postscript does not support transparencey, thats the major problem within our repro industry and old film/ctp RIPS. We save all files as PSD files and use a pdf workflow which works fine.

The older RIPS flatten any image on the fly when sent to output devices, so any txt, be it live or not gets turned into a 300dpi image.

Best method is to do any text, dropshadows etc in Illustrator, but then not everyone has access to all these progs as we do within the trade.

Stu
 
Striker said:
No, postscript does not support transparencey
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It's a vector file. It supports transparency by it's very nature.

The problem is the software being used, not the file format.

PS is predominantly raster software, which means that is next to useless at saving vector.

As you said, Illustrator is one option, as is Flash.
 
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