[Georgi Parvanov]

Unfortunatley still dont have the funds for the broadcast monitor (which is definitley a good idea). The crappy thing I think is that it was recorded in DV then transferred to DVD and so on.

I am able to view it on a regular TV and if I pull down the saturation it is ok. I kind of tuned it to be OK on the TV but it looks undersaturated on my PC monitor. My concern is the following – now on my TV everything seems perfect but will it be the same on all others? I’m concerned if the problem is in the TV not the PC only but however. Will just try on other TV. Hope it goes well 🙂

Thanks a lot for the response! Checking Color Finesse is also a good idea it’s worth a try!

[Georgi Parvanov]

You are on the right direction i think but have a little approach mismatch.

The thing is when you just bring to your document it will look smaller because actually making something 300dpi instead of the standard for a computer monitor 72dpi is just reducing its size like four times. (dpi is dots per inch = pixels per inch but we all know that)

If you want good quality I recommend not using the standard photoshop resize tool but some professional software as Genuine Fractals for example.

First open the image in photoshop and from image size adjust it first to 300dpi click ok the go to image size once again and then enter the pixel dimensions that you need. And when performing both operations make sure when you click the button Auto on the right (at least in CS3) the quality is set to best.

It should work fine but for such a resize you’ll loose a looot of quality when using standard photoshop tools. They work just fine for a x2 resize though 🙂

[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 🙂