Rotating and shrinking an image.... but keeping it "sha

Lukenn

Hi guys,

I'm in the process of doing my Year Book page right now, and I've got a few photos I want to put into it. What I'm doing at the moment is File>Open then opening the photo and dragging it into my document, then I transform it a lot, they were taken with a 10MP camera and need to be 4/5cm wide and high. So I shrink them, holding shift to keep the ratio of width to height, and then I add a drop shadow, and a white stroke, and then rotate them a little bit. You can probably see im going for the tacky collage of photos placed on top of each other at weird angles look. Basically, my problem is that when i print it out to take a look, the pictures are "fuzzy" (pixelated almost), and the stroke line is very fuzzy/zip-zag like. Is there a way to correct this? I'm guessing the pictures are uzzy because i'm trying to cram a lot of image info into a small space and the line is fuzzy because it's at an angle? but this is just my guess.
Is there a better way of going about doing this? Also, if anyone has any ideas for how I can spice it up a bit then any suggestions would be warmly welcomed!

Thanks,

Luke

crdchris · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:00 pm Post subject:

You could try using a higher resolution. When you create a new project, select a resolution higher than 72. I use 300 for most projects where I am not sure if I am going to print or not. The reason for this is because Photoshop is primarily a Raster graphic program, meaning you will most likely see pixels, blurs, etc if zoomed in enough without sufficient resolution. Illustrator is a Vector program, so you normally shouldn't see any pixelation in print from the objects within.

The alternative problem could be the printer, either it's not capable of printing high quality work, or you can try image quality at max. The type of paper you use can also create the distortion. Photo(glossy) paper might give you a better result as well.

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