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I am trying to make a page in photoshop CS with simple text. So, what i did was Go to "New" and i made the size 8.5 x 11 ( same as a normal page for printing) ) Then a white box apperently 8.5 x11 or so it seems pops up. I then hit the text tool and write what i want and thats fine. But when i zoom up a little or go down a little, the text goes all blurry and unclear. I thought text was vectorized already and can go to any size without losing quality. Is there a setting im missing?
Thanks alot, so could you give me a quick start up? I mean, so i start photoshop cs and what are the first few thngs i do to get the text to a layer? I just gave it a try and used the default canvas, wrote some text, and when i enlarge the text, it goes all "blocky". I have a lesser photoshop program,( home edition) and when i enlarge my screen view it goes clear as a bell no matter how large i make it.Heres a sample i did using the default "new" canvas and wrote on it. Doesnt look good. I must have something set wrong.
Last edited by Leeboy; December 10th, 2008 at 08:04 AM.
Text should go to a new layer automatically. You should see a new layer pop up in the layers pallet when you click on the document with the text tool. If you want to make the text bigger, highlight it to get it to edit mode and increase the font size. You can also click on the "T" icon in the layers pallet next to the text layer you want to edit. If text is not going to a layer automatically for some reason, you can create a new layer using the "New Layer" button at the bottom of the layers pallet. Make sure the new layer is selected and add your text.
Sounds to me like you are rasterizing the text layer then dragging it bigger. Once the text layer is rasterized, it behaves just like any other bitmap image...gets distorted when you enlarge.
Also, make sure you're designing in a decent resolution...150DPI or better.
Describe how you are enlarging the text. If you are selecting the text and using the transform tool, you are enlarging the text. If you are using the slider in the navigator window, you are just zooming in and out. You will get some distortion when you zoom in tight but that won't effect the print quality. If in doubt, just select View -> Print Size. That's how it should look printed.
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Last edited by rrc62; December 10th, 2008 at 08:45 AM.
Ok, makes sense. So, what i do is I got to......File.....New......Then this box pops up ( this is the latest settings i tried with the res higher) (see attachment) Might i have something wrong set in here?
Is the RBG the right setting for text? (whats the others for?) Should i switch it back to 150 dpi? Also, what format does photoshop documents save in so you can re-open and edit and move things around again?
Everything in the new file dialog looks fine. 150 DPI would probably give you perfectly adequate results with a smaller file size. You want to save your Photoshop projects with a .PSD file extension. That's the native Photoshop file format.
Is the RBG the right setting for text? (whats the others for?) Should i switch it back to 150 dpi? Also, what format does photoshop documents save in so you can re-open and edit and move things around again?
RGB is for web....cmyk is for printing...it depends on wat u want to do
Another image shows the document settings. 8x8 inches at "5" dpi. In this image, the font looks all pixelated.
The third image is how the text looked coming off the printer. In spite at document being 5 dpi, the text prints as a vector.
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Well Fred You must have a check box on somewhere. I downed your file and it printed just like you see it. All messed up. I tried my file and it looked like a smear, and printed like a smear.
in photoshop for on screen viewing look at the bottom left of your canvas. you should see a percentage of your view
for optimum on screen viewing your canvas needs to be at 100%, for accurate viewing it needs to be a percentage divisible by 5 ex. 12.5%, 25%, 50% 75%.... if your viewing percentage is at 33.3% or 66.7% your viewable image on screen will become a bit distorted and somewhat pixelated... since photoshop is generally a raster editing program your display is the same, when you zoom in or out you are either upsampling or downsampling your pixel view, the downsampling and upsampling algorithm that photoshop uses does not boad well for odd percentages...
this may help when looking at text in photoshop...
anything over 100dpi should alleviate any blurriness when printing text... of course 150 and up is always recommended (anything over 300 is overkill, that is if 300 isn't already overkill itself)
note: this is only for onscreenviewing.... to see the best representation of how your document will print, you must view the document at 100%
Text in Photoshop CS 
