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easiest way to make text look low-res???
I’m trying to simulate some on-screen interface elements that have text that appears “low-res” (pixelated, not anti-aliased, etc.). Curious to know what you COW folks would recommend for efficiently achieving that look. Is there a particular effect/filter that does the trick by itself, or is more involved. I can think of a few ways I might do it, but I thought I would ask for input from the creative and helpful people here. Thanks in advance.
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Create text, precomp layer, then add the mosaic filter to the precomp. Adjust mosaic to taste….
Also, create text small, then precomp, then scale precomp…this is along the same idea as Dave’s approach, except it uses the text engine and not the (shiver) basic text effect…(glad i don’t have to use that anymore).
Mark
Mark Harvey
Senior Editor
Le Réseau des sports -
then, to remove the aliasing, set the layer to draft quality (layer>quality>draft or use the quality toggle for that layer in the timeline).
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
oops, mark got in their before i did… to avoid confusion, my response was for dave’s suggestion….
if you needed to do the same for marks, you’d aplly something like levels, then adjust the alpha component for black and white input values to be around 127.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
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