Computer Graphics with Photoshop - HELP: Curves WITHOUT Alpha-blending???

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HELP: Curves WITHOUT Alpha-blending???

Nobody

2006-07-10, 6:18 pm

Hi...

I need to make a pretty simple curve (top left corner of a 19pix rounded
rectangle). The issue at hand is that the side that would be *outside* the
rectangle can *not* be alpha-blended (since it will be used for skinning an
application). Its sort of a dark blue rounded rectangle on a gradiented
background. I didn't want any "jaggies", so I spent the better part of the
evening tweaking the outside side pixel-by-pixel to get it smooth.
Low-and-behold it turned out as smooth as a babys bottom. I felt pleased. A
few minutes later I get an angry call saying its jagged as hell. Ooops...
forgot to test it on different backgrounds!

How come on about half the backgrounds I test with it looks great, and on
the other half it looks horrible? Seems like its mostly the dark colors that
have problems even though some of the light colors do as well.

Kingdom

2006-07-10, 6:18 pm

"Nobody" <nobody@cox.net> wrote in news:aZ8lg.8$RD.3@fed1read08:

> Hi...
>
> I need to make a pretty simple curve (top left corner of a 19pix
> rounded rectangle). The issue at hand is that the side that would be
> *outside* the rectangle can *not* be alpha-blended (since it will be
> used for skinning an application). Its sort of a dark blue rounded
> rectangle on a gradiented background. I didn't want any "jaggies", so
> I spent the better part of the evening tweaking the outside side
> pixel-by-pixel to get it smooth. Low-and-behold it turned out as
> smooth as a babys bottom. I felt pleased. A few minutes later I get an
> angry call saying its jagged as hell. Ooops... forgot to test it on
> different backgrounds!
>
> How come on about half the backgrounds I test with it looks great, and
> on the other half it looks horrible? Seems like its mostly the dark
> colors that have problems even though some of the light colors do as
> well.
>
>
>

Your using the wrong program for this, do it in Illustrator and it should
be perfect. PS has enough vector stuff to get by on but if your looking for
the best you need a dedicated vector application, I dare say Coral would
also be perfect but I haven't touched that in years.

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