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March 26, 2022
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Fuzzy Graphic and Font. Please Help.

  • March 26, 2022
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Why does it look fuzzy when I zoom in on this?

 

I imported the musical notation as an EPS into Photoshop. I need it to be scalable.

 

The text was entered IN photoshop so why on earth is it blurry?

 

Please help!  Thank you!

 

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Conrad_C
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March 27, 2022

What are the pixel dimensions of your Photoshop document?
Will it be printed, and if so, at what physical size in inches/cm?\

 

Also, your example image is missing important information: What is the magnification of that view? Because in any image editor (even outside Photoshop), magnifying beyond 100% (one image pixel to one display pixel) must always pixelate, because you are making each image pixel use more than one display pixel. This is true regardless of ppi or pixel dimensions.

 

If it’s a vector font in an EPS, it should be fully scalable, but in Photoshop, the hard limits to scalability are the pixel dimensions of the image. In other words, an image cannot resolve more detail than its pixel dimensions allow. That’s why others are advising you to enter the text in Illustrator or InDesign. Because those document formats are not pixel-based, any vector type in them will resolve to the full resolution of the output device.

jane-e
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March 26, 2022

 


@Thomas22842972ml5u wrote:

Why does it look fuzzy when I zoom in on this?


 

It looks fuzzy because you zoomed in on it. You didn't show us your zoom level, but view it at 100% and see how it looks.

 

To confirm:

  • The small open circle is an EPS
  • The text was typed in Photoshop

Is that correct?

 

If you want it to be scalable, follow the advice from D_Fosse and use Illustrator.

 

How will this be used? In print? On the web? Somewhere else?

 

Jane

 

D Fosse
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March 26, 2022

Wrong tool for the job. You need a vector application like Illustrator, not a pixel-based raster application like Photoshop.