anti-aliasing in photoshop for web
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- thompson
What anti-aliasing setting in photoshop do you guys use to simulate font-smoothing on the web ?
I used to use 'none' but I have been getting complaints from clients about the 'pixelation'. It's frustrating.
- flyingnowhere0
Smooth for me.
- ninjasavant0
None is the only one that will look the most like fonts on the web. Second to that is sharp.
- WeLoveNoise0
i use none - pure representation of what it will look like on the web
- < If they don't like it then maybe they should stick to print.ninjasavant
- but fonts on the web can be aliased?ribit
- i mean anti-aliased. I use smooth or sharp, depends on sizeribit
- larryetc0
- neat.ninjasavant
- wow. nice!bigtrick
- of course the PC version of the fonts looks fucked.utopian
- +1rounce
- raf0
"None is the only one that will look the most like fonts on the web"
"i use none - pure representation of what it will look like on the web"Are you on Windows 98? I didn't know people still used Windows with Cleartype off.
- i just have clear type on for the first time today having been forced to upgrade to windows 7. looks shit.skt
- It does suck on Windows. There's a Cleartype Tuner App on Microsoft site, probably built into Windows 7 nowraf
- For the people I'm supporting, none is the way to go.ninjasavant
- bigtrick0
yeah, uh, safari, ff and ie all do font smoothing.
- raf0
Funny I hated OS antialiasing at first. When I bought my first Mac some 3 years ago I ranted about how bad fonts looked like in aliased mode. Kerning, tracking, thickness.. it was shit (probably still is).
Everyone kept answering "what are you talking about, just use the antialiasing, it's a mac ffs". They were right, actually..
- kult0
For web? Sharp.
- raf0
This is just another hint that there is a gigantic market for a web design application, one that has web-specific drawing functions, can configure and show grids nicely and displays fonts the way the web does.
Something that would end the Photoshop/Fireworks discussion for once.
Impossible? Too hard a task to start from scratch against over a decade of Adobe supremacy? If a team of two brothers can make www.pixelmator.com – nothing is impossible.
- zarkonite0
sharp is the way to go for me.
None doesn't represent what happens on someone's default insall of XP SP2+, Vista, W7 or OSX.
Besides, I'd rather leave a good first impression on the design and later let the client figure out web design sucks.
- business_mouse0
What is this "web" you speak of?