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# 1 03-11-2008 , 12:28 AM

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ok, so as you may have noticed from the "post your desktop" thread and some others i've posted in/made, i'm remaking the appearance of my comp...

anyways, i'm working on a BG right now and trying to make some text but i cant see to get it right, i need to smooth out the edges without losing the sharpness (i want it to look like its cut out) and without losing the corners, anyone know of a way to do this?

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# 2 03-11-2008 , 12:31 AM

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here's the text in question

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# 3 03-11-2008 , 05:28 AM

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I'd do that with flash...
looks simple enough. I don't know about photoshop b I wouldn't bother saving a text in that condition.
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# 4 03-11-2008 , 06:01 AM

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hmm... i've never used flash in my life...

i ended up getting it done though, i went around all the edges really carefully with a 2 px brush, it took about 45 minutes to get it lookin right but it's done :p

if you wanna see it look in the "post your desktop" thread

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# 5 03-11-2008 , 06:13 AM

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Looks great. I noticed it shortly after I wrote this...
Flash is really easy to use. I like it especially for icons and stuff like that.

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# 6 03-11-2008 , 06:16 AM

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is it easy to get smooth curved lines with flash? that seems to be one of my biggest problems with PS

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# 7 03-11-2008 , 06:54 AM

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flash is vector based, which means everything is drawn like NURBS
so no matter how close you get to something it's always sharp, clear, and crisp

what did you do to make the green glow for your text? was it a layer effect?

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# 8 03-11-2008 , 06:59 AM

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i used the text tool to write the text in black, then on a layer under the text i followed the text as close as possible with a brush just a tad thicket than the text user added image