How do I smooth the edges of text in a .gif

[lightpants]

I need to make the edges in the following .gif look smooth, can anyone tell me how to do it?

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Thanks
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[LanceM]

Well, it's not exactly "text" any longer (in the respect that graphics programs deal with). You can try blurring or smudging it with an appropriate tool, or maybe go ahead and actually fill in the lines with a paintbrush/pen/airbrush/etc tool.

It's not difficult... it would just take a few minutes. I'd do it, but the station I'm on doesn't have anything beyond Paint. 🙂

 

[asm0deus]

wow thas gonna tough.. you may be better off finding a font of similar proportion and blanking the text out to start over... that .gif is ugly too 🙁

 

[DivideBYZero]

Smoothing it out won't stop it sucking.

 

[lightpants]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
Smoothing it out won't stop it sucking.

I am not being paid to stop if from sucking, she just wanted it smoother. I added some thickness to the lines and blurred it a little, it looks better now.

But, yes, it still sucks! 🙂

 

[ebaycj]

make it a jpeg (256 colors in GIF files is just too limiting), and antialias the font edges.

 

[CTho9305]

JPEG is going to look like crap unless you make it very high quality, which means a big file. Use PNGs when you'd use GIFs.

 

[zagood]

I'd request the original background image and what font she used, then build it over from scratch. Probably be faster than trying to modify the existing image.

You'll never be able to smooth out that aliasing without digging in with the magnifying glass, and even then you'll probably still be left with uneveness in the borders.

-z