retired_leeboggs

Hi all,

I'm quite new, but more enthusiastic about Photoshop, and I met a problem few days ago, which I find no solution for even after turning the pages of the'bible' again min. twice.

What happens is that I'm editing a videocassette cover with pictures and texts on it, on several layers. The trouble is that the all the texts happen to be blury on the screen, and at printing as well. /I used Times New Roman, and Monotype Corsiva/

Do you have an idea what do I do wrong?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Eva

Blinky2004

Welcome to the community Catwalk. Hope you enjoy your stay. [honesty]

mmm... I'm going to assume you're not zoomed into your document properly. To make sure you're seeing your document at 100%, double-click on the Magnifying tool in the Toolbar. ( bottom right corner )

Are you creating this document to scale? i.e. the proper size for the video case? Hopefully you are, and are NOT creating the document too small and having to scale it up afterward in the print setup options.

To be sure, right-click the TitleBar and choose "Image Size...". Also make sure your document's resoltion is set to at least 300dpi for decent results.

Generally... as long as you don't "Rasterize" your type layers, your text should always be clean and sharp -- on screen and in print. Provided you use the proper dimensions and dpi as mentioned above.

Let us know if none of this helped. :B

retired_paddza

Also, make sure that you have anti-aliasing set to something like "sharp" or "crisp" and not "none" in the drop down of the text options.

Make sure you aren't using any bitmap fonts that can't be scaled either. TNR should be fine, not sure about monotype fonts though. But if it's on both fonts, then it's probably something else.

retired_leeboggs

Thank you for drawing my attention from messing with fonts to the fact that it's sg. to do with the size.

Now I remember, that after printing the first sketch, I noticed that i need it to be 5mm wider, so i just simply modified it's size, without counting with the consequences...

Is there a way I could have resized the document without messing up the contents?

Thanks again.

Eva

retired_leeboggs

I did reconstract my cassette cover, and this time I made sure that it was the proper size.

The result became much better, - but for me - the bloody maximalist it is still not perfect. Anyway it is not rasterized yet. /Basicly I don't rasterize them, because I need to make modifications in the datas every now and then/

I did try this anti-alise thing as well, swithching between sharp, and crisp, but it didn't make much difference.

Any other ideas?

Thanks for the help so far...

Blinky2004

It's a little hard to give any specific suggestions Catwalk without seeing an example of the problem. Would you be able to post one for us?

As i mentioned previously though... if your document size and resolution are setup correctly, and your type layers are not Rasterized, then your type should print just fine as far as clarity is concerned.

Beyond that, i can't imagine what the problem might be... not without seeing an example of it.

retired_leeboggs

Hi again,

So, here it is... Unfortunately I had to merge it down to be able to post it.

You can see that the fonts are quite bad well, on the backbone, cose they're pretty big fonts. But it is similar on the rest as well.

The funny thing I found - if I move this text a bit to the left it becomes a bit better, but then it's not in the middle. :\

What do you think?

Cw

retired_paddza

Uhm... it looks fine to me. I don't see any blurry fonts. Are you sure you're zoomed in to 100%?? [confused]

retired_leeboggs

that I'm watching it 100%. ;\

THe round letters look to me a bit fuzzy, but I will stop killing your brain untill I print it with colour... In balck and white I cannot judge it well.


Thank you a lot anyway. :}

Cw

Blinky2004

Yes, the letters are a tad fuzzy. Nothing to write home about though. Welcome to the wonderful world of Anti-Aliasing.

Generally, your type is very small. That doesn't help its on-screen appearance much. Second, some of those fonts simply should not be used at such a small size. The scripted fonts do not hold up well at smaller sizes.

But trust me though... if your printer can go at least to 720dpi resolution, your type should print pretty clear/clean. And at 1440 it would definately be clear.

Make sure though that your document's DPI setting is at least set to 300, minimum.