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Reducing scale of photoshop files causes pixelation?
Hi Guys.
I have been working on some book covers sent to me from cover designers. When I use the photoshop files in after effects in a comp the same resolution as the original psd document i have no problem. but If i want to make a comp significantly smaller and reduce the size of psd layers such as text or simple graphics. The layers become extemely pixelated and are unusable. I would expect this when trying to enlarge a layer beyond its intended resolution but not when reducing it.
Any ideas? when in photoshop you can reduce a layer to any size and it still remains the same quality, but in after effects it goes very pixelated for me.
Thanks in advance
Tom
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3 Replies
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No, you should not have pixelation when reducing the scale. Check that your comp preview window size (magnification ratio) is set to 100% and your quality to full. Also, be sure that the layers themselves have their quality switches (diagonal line icon) set to full.
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collapse transformation/continuously rasterize switch(looks like a sun) should keep vectors crisp. Now if they’re not vectors, well then its up to a good bicubic resize plugin.
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He is working with PSD files, not vector, so the layers will come in as raster, which is fine for scaling down without a plug-in. FYI – You can convert those layers to live text layers in AE if you wanted to scale them up or change the text. Layer>convert to editable text
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