Bad quality text in photoshop

[Georgi Parvanov]

I registered especially to answer your question because I know texts and flash somehow don’t get along and it is such a pain in the ass. I had nearly the same problem a lot of times and the solution that does work for me is just work at a 100% of the size always. If you need a resize for something then just make sure you don’t resize your image over 100% of its original size and it should work just fine. What I mean is just make sure the largest size you need is a 100% of the original size.

Another thing is when working in photoshop make sure you tried all the different anti-aliasing modes of the text – crisp, sharp, strong or smooth. For the purpose I usually use smooth and it works. Depending on the font sometimes crisp is the better choice. As resolution is involved since you are making it for a site make sure your dpi is always set to 72. If you try 300 for example it will look very bad on your monitor but on a high quality print it’ll be perfect. And if you use a 300dpi for a flash it automatically resizes it to 72 which is a 4 times reduction in size and its kind of normal to loose quality.

Another thing is to use vector outlines for the type (convert to shape in photoshop). It should always be perfect no matter how you resize it but make sure you are saving it in a vector format but its size is never good for flash 🙂

Hope you already found a solution though 🙂

[Daniel Levine]

I’ve been able to fix this by selecting Layer/Type/Anti-Alias on.

[Xman Savassi]

Same as the other guy, i registered just to answer this.

I came to this forum loooking for a solution for the same problem.

Thought the Anti alias solved some of the problem, the solution i found was something i have seen no one explain: What you need to do, is to change the SIZE of the image.
You just go to image Image > Image size (ALT+CTRL+I), change the setting to percentage, and increase the overall size of the image to 200% by example. Worked for me.

[Antonio Rodrigues]

Hello everybody. I have the same basic question but the difference is that it is not web and the letter size I need to work with is 8pt. I’ve just created a new file and now I just decided to set resolution at 1000px/inch to see if it guets better. I have to print this in a tuna can (you know the tinni letters in the nutritional values table in the back…well, that small and with that perfect resolution). The problem is I don’t know if this will solve my problem. I’ve read somewhere maybe I should use another program like illustrator but Im not sure. Please HELP!! Thanx everybody