Pen Tool Help // Pixelated Objects

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March 30, 2018
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So I'm trying to vector a character with the pen tool here, and in this order:

Stroke > Stroke size 3 > Path > Outline Stroke

I get these really pixelated objects like show with a black background.

The purple and green strokes are done without outlining the stroke at 4 and 3,

but as you can see they're also pixelated.

any help would be great.

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Monika Gause

Community Expert

You're seeing anti-aliasing issues that take place when 100% Black is rendered neighbouring color.

The question would now be: what exactly are you going to do with this image?

Will it be printed? Exactly how?

Will it be exported to raster image? Exactly how?

Michael Riordan

Inspiring

I don’t think this really a problem. Your screen is made up of pixels so even though you are working in vector the screen output IS pixels. Try printing it out. Does it look okay? Or try saving as a pdf and zoom in. Does it look okay? Or just zoom in in Illustrator. If the pixels don’t get any bigger as you zoom in, you’re just seeing your screen resolution at work.