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repetitive action commands

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 12:13 am
by CarbonTerry
Hello,
In PS7 I am trying to duplicate a layer that is reduced by 1% 85 times. The Layer contains text and lines only. I set up an action to make it a lot faster but there seems to be a glitch. After repeating the action 6-8 times some of the text starts to be clipped off and eventually distorted with some strange artifacts attached to the text. Any help here?

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 10:32 am
by HaraldHeim
Usually the text should get blurred more and more if you reduce its size in 1% steps. If artifacts occur, it looks like there was no interpolation applied when resizing the text. Maybe you used the Nearest Neighbor setting in the Image Size dialog.

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 2:43 am
by CarbonTerry
Thanks for the reply,
I was thinking (incorrectly, I guess) that since it was a vector shape almost anything could be done to it without much effect on the sharpness, especially shrinking the size.
What I have is a specialized linear graph that one can use whatever size of graph that suits their needs. Any suggestions?