Comments on: Tutorial: Eliminating Jaggies

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multimediaglossary » Blog Archive » Jaggies : Tutorial — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:38:05 +0000

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By: Jeremy Schultz

Jeremy Schultz — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:06:14 +0000

Click here for the tutorial on converting grayscales to bitmaps, which was touched upon by Mac Wizard's original comment.

By: Jeremy Schultz

Jeremy Schultz — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:43:11 +0000

Read the last paragraph: I retyped the text because I knew the typeface and could therefore focus my technique on making the swish line extra smooth.

By: Berjoska

Berjoska — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 17:39:39 +0000

Uhm, do you call this a good solution? The type is completely unreadable after that.

By: Jeremy Schultz

Jeremy Schultz — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 05:23:28 +0000

Yes, creating a vertical curve is another good way to do what we’re doing here with the bitmap conversion. What I use this technique for is when I have a grayscale image and I need to knock out the light values and keep the dark values, and with the curve I can control which values Photoshop eliminates.

In this tutorial, the original images were already bitmaps so I went with the simpler bitmap conversion to get the bitmap.

The technique I like most for doing what you’re doing with the curves is actually in the Levels dialog box. My next tutorial will be on this very subject!

By: Mac Wizard

Mac Wizard — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 18:20:14 +0000

Rather than trying to convert back to bitmap, you could add an adjustment layer of curves and pull the diagonal line vertical, black point to 125 and white point to 125. By adjusting the horozontal position of the vertical line (does that make sense?) you can adjust how much or little the white fills in. ie. Black and white point at 20, or 200.