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  Image corruption after “distort”

  Posted by Roger Burton on September 7, 2009 at 10:37 am

  Hi chaps, I have an image that needs reducing and “distorting” a little to fit into a tv screen in another image, the first image has a logo and some text in it – when it’s scaled it looks reasonably OK but when I try and distort it and ‘complete’ the transformation (I’ve only distorted ‘once’) the result is rubbish, is there away around this problem ? Regards Roger

  Roger Burton replied 16 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  David Cabestany

  September 17, 2009 at 7:07 am

  Are you hitting enter after the distortion? Photoshop won’t render the result until you commit to the changes so if you still have the transform box active your image will look very pixelated and crappy.

  D.
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  Roger Burton

  September 17, 2009 at 7:14 am

  Thanks dave, yes … it’s after the commitment it still looks rubbish – good of you to take the time though. Regards Roger
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  Richard Harrington

  September 18, 2009 at 1:42 am

  Make sure you are viewing at 100%

  Non Square Pixel Preview also reduces visual quality in preview

  Richard M. Harrington, PMP

  Author: Video Made on a Mac, Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Studio On the Spot and ATS:iWork
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  Roger Burton

  September 18, 2009 at 5:29 am

  Thanks Richard, I cannot believe it, I don’t seem to be able to repeat this phenomena now – I know I would have checked it out at 100% and there’s no reason why the pixel aspect ratio should have changed but it looks ok now, I’m confused – thanks to all for taking the time. Roger

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