Disable Layer Aliasing

[Jan Vork]

Hi Chris, I use a work-around for this:

In Photoshop, open the file, go to image size, turn on resampling, and choose for ‘Nearest Neighbor’ as interpolation method.

Then, multiply the current resolution with 2, 4, 8 or whatever number. So, a 72dpi file may become e.g. 144 or 288 dpi, whatever suits your needs. Save the file, and use it.

In this way, the file does look exactly the same, but it has more pixels, and the anti-alias algorithm will do less ‘harm’ to your edginess.

Best,
Jan (https://www.jaydude.nl)

http://www.jaydude.nl

[Steve Bentley]

But for Jan’s suggestion to work you do have to have “resample image” checked in the PS image size dialogue. Changing DPI doesn’ t necessarily change the number of pixels.
You can do all of this inside AE simply by turning the draft/best switch to draft for that layer. Just make sure that if you subcomp the layer you want to keep aliased, that the precomp layer also has the draft setting. (depending on your prefs this switch can ripple down through precomped layers)