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C-Dub

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Do any of you know anything about using Paint Shop Pro 9 and can help me figure out how to smooth the edges on my number sets? I dont want them to look so pixelated.
 

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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).

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.
 

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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.
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.

Basically I just wanna give you guys the best quality set I can. I'm not sure how I can make the layer in vector format. Any help on that could help.
 
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IIRC vector requires additional software to make, that is why you don't see a lot of vector files floating around. My suggestion would actually be to just create one layer using the font, and then creating an outline of that layer, rather than upscaling the font itself in a new layer
 

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Take your font number, resize it to the size you want the top layer to be then using the pen tool, outline that, then you can do an offset to make the second layer and then the third layer and so on.
 
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I'm hoping I have figured it out. I know that using anti-alias is important in making smoother edges and when I saw the drop down menu for anti-alias there were 3 options. (Off, sharp, and smooth) I had it on sharp, so I switched it to smooth. A little more experimentation and we'll see what happens. I think it'll make a huge difference
 
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Here's an example I made this morning. Has 3 layers, one was the black number text layer, the other two were outline layers, first was outline @10 pixels wide(white) the second was a duplicate of the white changed to black @ 23 pixels wide.
Number Sheet.jpg
 
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