P: Improve font antialiasing

Has anyone looked at Photoshop CS6 type antialiasing?

Need this badly.

Chris, I think it's clear that there is public demand for subpixel rendering of smaller text (9px-13px).

Everyone who creates mockups for the web (72 dpi) needs this and the demand is not going to go away.

Regardless of the reasons why it can't be done we insist you find a way. We don't care if you need to create a new file format or image mode. We don't care if it will only be compatible with certain monitors or operating systems. Web designers are chomping at the bit for this feature more than anything else in CS6.

Second try! I made another test, it looks like font Arial in Cyrilic not properly aligned
By reading other forums ( http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.co... )
It is due ClearType antialiasing, and due some patent issues. Are there any other workarounds ? Seems like Adobe Flash guys with TLF Text antialiasing solved that problem

Here is test 2

A question also worth asking: Do you see the same disparity with IE or Firefox?

-Noel

Something is off with your example -- Photoshop's type rendering isn't that far off. That sort of difference can't be accounted for with antialiasing.

That looks like you had a different weight of the typeface selected in Photoshop than what was used in the browser.

Today, i was starting to design webpage in CS5
and saw horrible issue! This feature must have in CS6
Smth like additional option "subpixel-sharp" in Antialias drop menu near Sharp Crisp etc
See pic below

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Custom settings for for text render:

< Soft Light — Smooth — Hard Pixel >

I support the idea of adding features that make it possible to render text as per ClearType.

Comments that "it's becoming obsolete" seem short-sighted.

There are specific uses for this today, regardless of whether it generates text that might look wrong on some monitors.

I've even gone so far as to render type in WordPad then screen grab it on the occasions where I've needed a rasterized version that looks proper on LCD monitors with RGB orientation.

Before you start questioning why, don't forget that there can be times when things already captured need to be matched!

-Noel

There's a way to fake it with this script here: http://www.tutorial9.net/tutorials/ph... but honestly, I don't see enough of a difference.