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April 8, 2013
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Blurry text, not an anti-aliasing or resolution issue

  • April 8, 2013
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Whenever I type in Photoshop for the last few months, all the text is pixelated and blurry. The problem is impervious to anti-aliasing and resolution changes. The only difference is that with anti-aliasing the image is blurry and pixelated and without, it's just extremely pixelated. I have no idea why this problem started, I have no memory of changing a setting that would have caused this.

I've done everything I can think of, including re-setting Photoshop completely to original settings. Even files that I created before the problem began now have blurry text when opened. I esentially can't do anything with Photoshop right now and it is extremely frustrating. The following images are of the text WITH anti-aliasing and then without, both at 12 pt, 400%, 300 ppi.

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The problem I am seeing is you did not mention the pixel dimentions. That is the true resolution of the text. If it is too low the text will look like that. At a low resolution the ppi is not going to help much other that reduce the physical size giving it the illusion of a higher resolution. But when you zoom in to 400% you are defeating the purpose of increasing the ppi. The physical size, the ppi and the pixel dimentions are all tied together.

forumla:

width in  inches X ppi = pixel dimentions

With that forumla you can determine any of the values by knowing the other two.

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Silkrooster
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April 8, 2013

The problem I am seeing is you did not mention the pixel dimentions. That is the true resolution of the text. If it is too low the text will look like that. At a low resolution the ppi is not going to help much other that reduce the physical size giving it the illusion of a higher resolution. But when you zoom in to 400% you are defeating the purpose of increasing the ppi. The physical size, the ppi and the pixel dimentions are all tied together.

forumla:

width in  inches X ppi = pixel dimentions

With that forumla you can determine any of the values by knowing the other two.

Participant
April 13, 2013

You are a beautiful, beautiful genius. I can't believe it took me so long

to ask this question, wish I'd done it sooner!

design1127
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October 27, 2016

You're welcome...


I've had this same issue since switching to Photoshop CC. But the answers above still aren't clear to me.

Even old files previously created in older Photoshop are now coming in with blurry text.

My files are set to 300dpi, but is ppi the same thing? And where in Photoshop CC do you actually change the ppi? I assume it's not the same spot as where you change the dpi. Please help!

I have projects that are now set back because I can't figure this out!

Thanks!

**UPDATE** I figured out how to change the ppi when doing a search on the topic. I opened Image size, unchecked the "Resample" option and changed my resolution to 600dpi, instead of the 300dpi it was already at and no luck. So, this did not solve my problem. My text is still blurry.