From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Type Essentials
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Text and anti-aliasing - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Type Essentials
Text and anti-aliasing
- [Instructor] This movie is about anti-aliasing text in Photoshop. Firstly, what is it? I'm going to zoom in on the piece of type that has none and we can get a better understanding by looking at this. Anti-aliasing is the introduction of transition color pixels around the curves and the diagonals. When there is none, you see that the type is made up of pixels, and pixels are all square. So without any transition colors, we are going to see these jaggies. There's rarely a time when you would want no anti-aliasing applied to your type, unless you are particularly going for this kind of retro look. If I move to this example, which has sharp anti-aliasing applied, and we zoom in, we can see that around the edges, there are colors between the red and the background. So this is not just a single color piece of type, but it's probably made up now of, between three and six colors. As to which is the best type of anti-aliasing to use, there's no definitive right answer. It would depend on…
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