Help with Photoshop...

[Traveler]

Hi all,

I'm trying to use Photoshop to create the walkable areas/regions/etc for backgrounds, but when I make a selection and fill it, PS creates a smooth edge at the edge of the selection. So if I use light blue as the fill color, there is a transition from light blue to darker at the edge of the selection (~3 pixels inside and outisde the selection edge.) This drives me crazy, I cannot understand how can PS draw outside the selection.

Do you have any idea how to force PS to only fill inside the selection and do not create a blurred edge?

Thanks,
Traveler

[dasjoe]

turn off antialiasing when making the selection. it's in the tools properties.

[Traveler]

dasjoe,

Thanks, that was it. I had anti-aliasing turned off but I guess it was on when I made the selection and saved it. When I loaded it back onto the picture, anti-aliasing was already off, but the selection had blurred edges. I didn't know this about Photoshop, since I rarely used saved selections before.

Thanks again!

Traveler

[Babar]

Since there is already a topic here about it, I hope you don't mind if I use it. How do you turn off anti-aliasing when scaling or rotating a selection? Whatever I do, the edges always are blurry.

[Traveler]

Babar,

I think the only way for that is to convert your picture to 256-color and do the transformation that way.  Copy the picture you want to rotate into an other picture, convert to indexed color, transform it and then paste it back to the original true-color picture.

AFAIK, there is no option to tell PS to not to alias edges after transformations. (I may be wrong, though, since that's again something I didn't need before, so I never tried to solve it.)

Traveler

[Darth Mandarb]

Babar

go into: Edit > Preferences > General

You'll see a setting called "Image Interpolation" which is most likely set to "Bicubic (better)"

Change this to "Nearest Neighbor" and it won't anti-alias on resize.

However, the results aren't always that great and usually require a little touch up after resize.Ã,  But it'll work.

[Pod]

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