468x60px Canvas size font pixelation issues

Question

I'm having some issues with everything being over pixelated. I'm trying to make some banners for a website and the fonts and images I insert onto the canvas are horribly pixelated. I think I'm definitely doing something wrong, but after all my searches online I can't find anything that touches on my issue. Any help would greatly be appreciated! thank you in advance!

D Fosse · Answer

60 pixels isn't a lot...this document is 60 pixels high, viewed at 100% and 400%:

Do you have a retina/high resolution screen? In that case you need to know that web browsers and most image viewers will scale images up to 200% in order to compensate for the high screen resolution. Instead of a straight one to one representation, four screen pixels are used to represent one image pixel.

This doesn't affect live text, which is rendered at native screen resolution. But text made in Photoshop is different! It is always rendered as document pixels - iow it's treated as an image, which of course it is. So it gets scaled, and as a result the pixels double in size.

This has nothing to do with Photoshop (it doesn't scale) - it's a workaround used outside Photoshop. But it will give the impression of pixelated text outside Photoshop.

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