sharp text in a grphic?

[BigT]

Hi, I'm admittedly a newbie to PS and not very talented when it comes to graphics. Can you help with a problem?

My client wants a plain graphic in place of text. See two examples at
[url]www.accident999.co.uk/demopics.html[/url]

It must be those words, justified, and about that size, and all graphic, no text. It is for web use and will display mostly at 800 x 600 resolution.

The two examples look ugly, any way to sharpen the text in a graphic? It's Arial 12 and 15 regular, no anti-aliasing as it looks worse if I do. Saving as a jpg rather than a gif is no improvement and triples the file size.

Any advice please? Is this as good as it can get?

[Flo Nelson]

If the text did not need to be justified, plain html text would be a lot
crisper. There is a CSS (cascading stylesheet) style for justified text,
supported by modern browsers - see
[url]http://www.spiderpro.com/bu/bucssh001.html[/url]

Flo

"BigT" <todd3keys@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, I'm admittedly a newbie to PS and not very talented when it comes to

graphics. Can you help with a problem?

>
> My client wants a plain graphic in place of text. See two examples at
> [url]www.accident999.co.uk/demopics.html[/url]
>
> It must be those words, justified, and about that size, and all graphic,

no text. It is for web use and will display mostly at 800 x 600 resolution.

>
> The two examples look ugly, any way to sharpen the text in a graphic? It's

Arial 12 and 15 regular, no anti-aliasing as it looks worse if I do. Saving
as a jpg rather than a gif is no improvement and triples the file size.

>
> Any advice please? Is this as good as it can get?

[YrbkMgr]

If that was created and rasterized at it's destined resoltuion, then yes, kinda.

You can enhance it by doing a couple of things. If it's me, and it HAS to be a graphic, I would take that finished graphic and duplicate the layer with a multiply blend mode., Then I would run various sharpening methods on it. I usually like a combo of USM with a high pass sharpening.

I'm not certain if there's a way to improve it before it becomes rasterized, but one thing is for sure, I would do ALL the work at the destined resolution, no resizing.

Peace,
Tony

[BigT]

Thanks Tony!

Todd