Thats kind of a broad idea. Can you expand on how?Use the pen tool to make your numbers with.
Tried to find it and found nothing that helped or I wouldnt of been on here asking.
Ahh, I think I see what happened here. Tom's answer of using the pen tool wasn't a suggestion (I don't think) to smooth out edges as you had asked. His point of using the pen tool is that if you use a pen tool to make your numbers (or any shapes, really) you have a lot more control over the quality of the shape, basically eliminating the need to "smooth out edges." My response was interpreting your question as a general how to make numbers with a pen tool, rather than how do you use the pen tool to smooth edges. In a nutshell, if you are going to make any shapes at all, be it numbers, bases, etc, use the pen tool (and the tutorials we posted would help with that).Tried to find it and found nothing that helped or I wouldnt of been on here asking.
I make the number sets using a font and then I expand the selection by usually 30 pixels to make the outer layer, 15 for the middle layer, and then use the original number for the top. The top layer is fine but when I try to fix the edges on the other 2 layers, that's where I run into the problem. I have started another set and I made the font size 750 pixels big as apposed to 500 and it helps kind of. I had someone critique my Fred Jones set and attempted top "smooth" out the edges but messed up the layers to where I couldn't repaint any layers.Ahh, I think I see what happened here. Tom's answer of using the pen tool wasn't a suggestion (I don't think) to smooth out edges as you had asked. His point of using the pen tool is that if you use a pen tool to make your numbers (or any shapes, really) you have a lot more control over the quality of the shape, basically eliminating the need to "smooth out edges." My response was interpreting your question as a general how to make numbers with a pen tool, rather than how do you use the pen tool to smooth edges. In a nutshell, if you are going to make any shapes at all, be it numbers, bases, etc, use the pen tool (and the tutorials we posted would help with that).
As for your original question, that is going to depend on a few different things, but I suspect your biggest problem is these numbers were taken from somewhere else and have a lower pixel quality. If they are in vector format, that tends to be easy to fix (but then again, if they were in vector, they wouldn't be bad quality to begin with). If they are being taken from a general image file (jpg, png, etc), then you would have a lot more work to do, and honestly, probably with not as great a result as you were hoping. In that event it would probably just be easier to remake the number from scratch.