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Old 11-16-2013, 01:18 PM   #35
derangedhermit
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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump View Post
@derangedhermit, I wonder if the aliasing you see might not be an inherent result of "cleaning" --- brightening up the background from dark sepia to white is going to lose some of the paler shades. If I use a blur or "softening" tool, the entire image starts to look too soft. I wonder how other folks cure that. I do see that all these images look pretty good in my editor --- Edit --AND IN SIGIL --, and as noted in my earlier post, rather poor in ADE, with aliasing and pixilation.
The degradation of the diagonal strokes comes from downsizing the images.
- The "clean" full size images have very nice lines, at all angles, even under magnification.
- Expanding the levels to as suggested on those images doesn't cause a problem (I tried it, but see for yourself).
- Even the images @ 1200px width show more aliasing. (Looked at yours, and I tried it in PSE also. Similar result, resizing from the original size).
Will look for solution to suggest.
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