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  • Losing quality when zooming in with a camera on a high-quality file

    Posted by Tom Trager on March 20, 2007 at 2:21 am

    Hi,

    I have a high-quality PS file inside of a composition,
    my problem is that when I scale down the file, in order for it to fit my comp size, once I set up a camera and zoom in on the picture, the quality is lost.
    which is weird since this is a high-quality file..
    Is there anything I can do in order to fix this problem?

    sorry for my weird expressiveness,
    Thanks,
    Or

    Tom Trager replied 19 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Frank Sievert

    March 20, 2007 at 6:52 am

    click on the “collapse transformations/Countinously rasterize” button
    in your layer – and – whommm! 😉

  • Tom Trager

    March 20, 2007 at 8:22 pm

    Thanks for your respond,
    Well, I’ve tried doing that but I don’t have the “collapse transformations/Countinously rasterize” option avilable for this file’s layer (I think that this is because the file is a Photoshop file and not a vector-based file)
    what can I do?

    Thanks!

  • Steve Roberts

    March 20, 2007 at 8:48 pm

    Did you try placing the PS file in a comp of its own size (big?) then dragging that into the main comp and scaling it … and clicking the ContRas button for that layer in that comp.

    So you’re continuously rasterizing the nested comp, that is.

  • Tom Trager

    March 20, 2007 at 10:36 pm

    It’s a good idea, but it still doesn’t work! I have no idea why.. your suggestion really seemed like a great solution but the picture still looks pixelated when I zoom in..
    It’s really weird, because when I zoom in with my mouse inside the PS file’s composition the quality stays high, but when I do the same in the other comp where the PS file is nested – it appears pixelated..

    any more ideas?
    Thanks.

  • Tom Trager

    March 20, 2007 at 11:39 pm

    turns up that something with the camera was not right, I had to check the “3D Layer Box” and that solved it!

    Thank you for your help! (not in a cynical way 🙂 )

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