Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Importing PSD or Tiff with alpha ... They look awful

And I think that if you make sure that anti-aliasing is turned on on
the Magic Wand Tool you may get a better edge. And you haven't said
what they format is - SD or HD? I wondered if you were bringing HD
frame sizes into an SD project.
+++
With best wishes,

Roger Shufflebottom
roger@bottom-line.tv
http://www.bottom-line.tv

On 15 May 2010, at 19:43, David Dawkins wrote:

Have you tried choking the matte 1 pixel?

D(sometimes the old ways are best)D

chlowden wrote:
>
>
> Many thanks to you all.
> I have been playing around with loads of different combinations and I
> have found this.
>
> 1. Importing psd files with layers looks like sh...t. Only useful
when
> one is in a hurry.
>
> 2. For the best results, I used the HDTV 1920x1080 72 dpi frame in
> Photoshop, flattened each layer, created an alpha channel using the
> quick mask tool and exported out each layer as a tiff or png file. In
> SD, the export looked awful.
>
> This is extremely laborious because any letter with a hole in it i.e.
> O,A,D, etc has to clicked by hand.
>
> But even after all this, the matte is still rough when you zoom
into it.
>
> I also did the same thing with illustrator thinking I would have a
> better matte, but it was not perfect.
>
> My primary problem is that on a TV monitor, it looks alright, but
on a
> computer screen, it looks rough as guts and now, so much is viewed on
> a computer.
>
>

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David Dawkins
780-905-9121
dawk2@shaw.ca

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