smoothing curves
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| smoothing curves | Terry50 | 15 Jan 05:50 |
| smoothing curves | rich404 | 15 Jan 10:03 |
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smoothing curves
Hi,
I made a circle; selected the border; and filled with color; and some of the curve was real rough during those hard turns. Is there a way to smooth them? How about inkscape and vectors??????
Thank you,
Terry
smoothing curves
Hi,
I made a circle; selected the border; and filled with color; and some of the curve was real rough during those hard turns. Is there a way to smooth them? How about inkscape and vectors?????? Thank you,
Terry
Gimp is a raster editor and works with pixels that are rectangular, so any curve will have steps.
To give an appearance of smoothness anti-aliasing is used, semi-transparent pixels to blend the hard edges.
Two things to consider with Gimp,
1. The image mode. If the image is indexed, there is no anti-aliasing. The fix: Image -> Mode -> RGB see: comparison.
2. The size of the image, pixel steps in a logo or icon, are more noticeable than say a large circle on a poster sized image.
Using a vector. A vector circle can be scaled to any size. If imported into Gimp as a svg, it will be anti-aliased. Then size comes into play. Exported, usually as a png anti-aliasing will be applied, Then size comes into play. Printed or displayed as a svg it will be anti-aliased
rich: www.gimp-forum.net
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