 The
fist step to smoothing out the lines you just made is to resize the
image to double the current resolution. Since we're at 150DPI for this
example, we kick it up to 300DPI. Next we select all the black lines
we made. With the Magic Wand (at 32 Tolerance and Anti-alised), click
on one of the black lines. It should go thru and select the rest for
you. To make sure, go to the Select menu and choose Similar from the
submenu. Now that you have all the lines selected, they'll be converted
into paths. In the Paths menu box, click on the Make New Path From
Selection button. You might want to change the 'Tolerance' setting
for this action to 2.0 (by clicking the button while holding down the
Control key (or was it the Alt key?? Try them both, sorry). Mac people
use the corresponding key. :) |
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 After
Photoshop does its thing, it'll leave you with a new path that has
smoothed your previously jagged lines. Create a new layer. Next fill
the path using the Fill Path button. The new layer will now hold the
new, smooth lines. Take note that these new lines are somewhat different,
here and there, to the lines you create in the last page. This a consequence
of the method I use. But I like the results, nonetheless. We can now
resize to a more managable DPI (back to 150). Never Flatten the image,
if it asks, when you're resizing these things. |
