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moores1990
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July 16, 2013
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why is the small text blurry on photoshop?

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why is the small text blurry on photoshop? i am dong a very small advert for a newspaper! and the text is printing blurry and when zoomed in is appearing all blurry? how do i stop this i only have photoshop and indesign

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    Guys it might just be a font issue.  Some fonts really don't work well at very small sizes.  This can be even worse on the paper quality most newspapers are printed on.  Tell us what font you are using, the size of the advert in inches or milimetres, and post the image to this thread.

    http://37signals.com/svn/posts/140-the-10-most-popular-newspaper-typefaces


    the font is myriad and the advert size is 3.3" x 5.4" inches! the add looks fine there but then when its printed it looks pixelated

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    c.pfaffenbichler
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    c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
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    July 16, 2013

    »Blurry«? Do you mean pixelated?

    Photohop is a pixel oriented image editing program, so text will be represented by pixels on-screen and in file formats that do not support that kind of data.

    But if you save a pdf you can maintain vector and font data (provided no faux styles are applied, …).

    i only have photoshop and indesign

    Then why don’t you use Indesign for type to begin with?

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    moores1990Author
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    July 16, 2013

    yes probably pixelated is the word! so if i print it as a pdf it wont appear blurry? i tried typing the font in indesign and then opening it into photoshop and it still made it pixelated? will i need to save it as a vector? if so how do i do that?

    Willi Adelberger
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    Willi AdelbergerCommunity Expert
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    July 16, 2013

    No, don't make Typo in Photoshop. It will always come out pixelated.

    That is (edited) not fully correct.

    Attached screenshot shows a psd and the pdf saved off of it open in Acrobat in the background.



    The typo is only not pixelated if saved as pdf. BUT there must not be any flattening! If any flattening occurs during pdf export it will loose any vector information!

    The other problem is: In Photoshop and raster images it is best to work in rgb. In drawing, text and vector best in cmyk for print.

    But Photoshop cannot mix rgb and cmyk, except with smart objects, but they are always pixelated in the output pdf.

    So the easiest way to create a printable pdf is to make it in InDesign, not in Photoshop. To make a printable pdf from Photoshop you need much more know how than to do it in an apropriate programme as InDesign.

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