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There are a few little tricks that will help
your text look a bit sharper on your webpages, especially at
smaller sizes.
Resizing
When resampling blocks of text, there is an option that you may
not have noticed, that will help you achieve sharper results.
This is particularly useful when you have scanned in blocks of
text or line art.
When we go to resize the image, Bicubic
resampling is the default option. This works best for most
images.
Here is the result on our text.
Try it again, this time choose bilinear resampling
Notice how much sharper the text is?
The second trick is for small text and is tracking, or kerning.
This means the spacing between letters. Here is a line of text
with standard tracking.
In the tracking box, increase the amount to 20
See how much more legible the text is. Look at a road sign and
you will notice that the tracking is set very wide. That is why
you can read them from a distance.
Here is a line of text with the crisp anti-alising, kind of
blurry.
Photoshop 7 ships with a new level called Sharp, notice the
difference?
I hope these little tips will help you to produce webpages with
sharper, easier to read text.
Happy 4th of July all. |