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Digital Design / Re: smoothing lettering
« on: December 22, 2019, 10:40:23 PM »
Here is one option: select the area inside of the letters using Magic Wand tool, then use "Select and Mask" to adjust your selection area. Once you go into "Select and Mask," you can smooth, feather, and otherwise adjust the selection area. You will see a preview of your selection. Once you are happy with the outline of the selected area (ie, your lettering), click OK to go back. Create a new layer, and fill in your selection area (Paintbucket). Now you have a new layer that should be a smoothed and cleaned up version of your original lettering. I like to do this on a separate layer so that the original stays intact, in case you are not happy with the results.
Before doing all of this, it's helpful to adjust the Levels of the image so that it's nice and crisp, and the background color is consistent. It's much easier to clean up lettering in Photoshop if your scanned image is crisp and high contrast.
I hope this helps!
Before doing all of this, it's helpful to adjust the Levels of the image so that it's nice and crisp, and the background color is consistent. It's much easier to clean up lettering in Photoshop if your scanned image is crisp and high contrast.
I hope this helps!