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stefanz40219435
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June 12, 2022
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Pixelation removal

  • June 12, 2022
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Hey,so I have an image in Photoshop which was blurry, so I traced it with the pen tool, made a color fill out of it, so I basically I redrew it as a shape and then I did sharpen to make it clear and ot blurry. But now the pixels are very large when I zoom in. Is there a way to make them samller or smoothen them? In Photoshop I know if I make it a vector it's fine but the design has to be done in Photoshop.

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Correct answer davescm

Look closely. The pixels in the background are not smaller. With less contrast between the colours the edges are less obvious.

Your sharpen step has probably emphasised those edges and made the anti-aliasing less effective. I would do it again without that step

Dave

 

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stefanz40219435Author
Inspiring
July 19, 2022

Thanks but it was not necessary becuase I realized I was zooming in to an image thta was already like 3000 by 3000 px or some crazy resolution like that. I mean that's hi-res enough for me, I jus had the size in cm and didn't realze how big it is. I mean when I don't zoom in, it looks fine and for such a resolution I don' need zooming in. But thanks I will remember that for the future!

Bojan Živković11378569
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Bojan Živković11378569Community Expert
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June 13, 2022

You expect Illustrator preview for vector data in Photoshop it seems. When heavily enlarging in Photoshop it will try to simulate pixels for both, pixel and vector based data. Press Ctrl + 1 then judge. That's how things work in Photoshop.

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stefanz40219435Author
Inspiring
June 13, 2022

Yeah I guess it's because it's a raster image it's gonna be pixelated when I zom in, that's fine. But notice how the pixels in the other image are smaller probably because it's higher res. Can I make the image of the princess which is a separate image from the backgorund look higher res(smaller pixels)? I know it's not possible technically but can I at least make it look like it is(not actually being so) with soem filter or trick?

davescm
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davescmCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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June 13, 2022

Look closely. The pixels in the background are not smaller. With less contrast between the colours the edges are less obvious.

Your sharpen step has probably emphasised those edges and made the anti-aliasing less effective. I would do it again without that step

Dave

 

davescm
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davescmCommunity Expert
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June 12, 2022

'But now the pixels are very large when I zoom in.'

How far have you zoomed in?  If you zoom to more than 100% then you are going to see pixels. Photoshop is a pixel editor so the smallest unit it can draw is a pixel.

If you have any vector shapes within your document then they will be drawn using current document pixels. Resize the document and vector shapes will be redrawn using the new document pixels.

 

Dave

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