Jagged edges on photos.

Hello.
I got a huge problem when trying to incorporate pics in PSE12.
I have downsized all pics to 2000X1500 using PS.
My problem is that the photos comes out with jagged edges and really bad quality.
I have tried all sorts of things. Saving it to PC helped a little but still jagged edges and overall really bad quality.
Tried different sizes, still same.
Even tried downsizing to 720 and burn to disc, playback on ps4. Still same.
The quality of video is fine and looks alot better then Pictures. I can just pause the video and it looks
crisper with no jagged edges.
I have never experienced this Before with older versions of PSE.
And No! This is not a resolution issue. I know they wont look as crisp as original
photos but they should be on par with videoquality and as of now they are not.

Vinjack
Just what program are you working with - Photoshop Elements 12 or Premiere Elements 12. The "PSE" abbreviation is typically used with Photoshop Elements.
In order for us to help you, please clarify your posting. If this is a Photoshop Elements question, you have posted in the wrong forum. You want the Adobe Photoshop Elements Forum (photo editing) and not where you are now the Adobe Premiere Elements Forum (video editing). It is your mention of "Timeline" incorporated in the "PSE" description that is confusing. By any chance are you working in the Elements Organizer Slideshow Editor of a Photoshop Elements program? Do you have any version of Premiere Elements at all?
Looking forward to your follow up.
Thanks.
ATR

Similar Messages

Jagged Edges after rotating a stroked image

I've have this problem a lot but I guess I'm just now getting around to ask about it.
When I have a photo in cs2-cs3-cs4 etc and I rotate it at an angle I get fine jagged edges all along the sides. It's becomes very pronounced in a stroked image even when I I stroke the image after rotation. The problem is more obvious when the image is not at angles like 45 or 90 degrees but more visible at in between angles.
Any suggestions?

ryanroy.roy wrote:
I've have this problem a lot but I guess I'm just now getting around to ask about it.
When I have a photo in cs2-cs3-cs4 etc and I rotate it at an angle I get fine jagged edges all along the sides. It's becomes very pronounced in a stroked image even when I I stroke the image after rotation. The problem is more obvious when the image is not at angles like 45 or 90 degrees but more visible at in between angles.
Any suggestions?
What you are seeing is alaising, and it is inherent in raster graphics when the line to be shown is not parallel to the columns or rows of the image.It can be mitigated to some extent by antialaising, which softens the edges of the diagonal lines. When you select all of an image and stroke for a border, antialaising is used. With the polygonal lasso tool, you can turn antialaising on or off. Alaising is less apparent with very high resolution, but it can't be elilminated.
Here are triangular selections with antialaising turned on and off:

Jpg jagged edges

Hi,
I'm making a video from jpgs -- all were taken by a professional photographer, really big file sizes, so that they are down to about 26% to fill the screen. Problem is the jagged edges, particularly on straight lines -- and there are a lot of these because it's architectural photography.
Tried Gaussian Blur in FCP, but it softens the photos too much.
Any other ideas?
thanks,
Eve

Let's try this from the top.
Recognize that NOTHING on the TV will ever ever look as sharp and as detailed as the original images.
1. A pro photographer should be able to deliver files in TIF or PSD - lossless formats. JPG is a lossy format designed to compress images for transmission over the internet and display on computer monitors. It was intended to be used by people who care more about small file size than maintaining image fidelity.
2. Unless you are doing moves (pan/zoom) on the images, you should reduce their pixel count to something close to the codec size. For DV, the equivalent square pixel size is 720x540. Best to do this in Photoshop (or other image editing software) before importing into FCP as FCP does not have the most sophisticated scaling engine.
3. Deinterlacing still images makes no sense what so ever. Deinterlacing takes half the image and throws it away then adds back the missing lines of information interpolated from the remaining lines. Why would you do this on a still image?
4. Images with a great deal of contrast and or thin horizontal edge detail will benefit from a slight vertical gausian blur - .5. This will make the detail that exists on only one scan line (which may appear to vibrate) blend over two scan lines so the image will counterintuitively look sharper - or at least more stable. Setting the Field dominance to "none" will also help as it tells FCP to render by frame not by field.
5. Keep in mind the color space of the DVD is the same as DV - 4:1:1. Unless you are manipulating the images (color correcting, composting, overlay titling, etc) your images will not improve with ProRes or DV50 codecs and the editing file sizes will grow significantly. If you are engaging in those activities, you will see a benefit.
6. Unless you are planning to make some variant of an high definition DVD (currently Blu-ray), it doesn't make any sense to me to work in an HD format for editing then down convert to DV size for burning. Why not simply work at the size/aspect ratio of the final output?
7. As noted, you really MUST have a TV monitor connected to view the material as you edit/play it back. Otherwise, you will have no idea how your work will display without burning to disk.
Have fun.
x

The end of jagged edges in iMovie using stills

It took an astonishing 14 months, but I have finally beaten the dreaded jagged edge quality issue in iMovie when using still photos. If you're reading this, you're a sufferer. How could the software be so bad as to ruin every picture you put in there? It's all about knowing the settings, and that can be difficult without some help.
It feels as though I've really gone through the mill with this programme, but here's your fix - or at least, a fix that worked for me.
Initially, I was using the first version of iMovie and the first version of OSX. In that environment I found the problem unsolvable. I didn't get anywhere until I upgraded to Panther (10.3.9) and iMovie HD 5.0.2. Here there are many more options and settings, but it is still a minefield. I tried almost every setting there is, and have the 'coasters' to prove it.
My fix is for widescreen. Choose HDV720P. Select your frame rate in the preferences box at 25 (which is PAL for use in the UK) And that's it. It produces a stable, high quality movie where all the effects available work perfectly - and no jagged edges!
If, as I do, you use Photo to Movie for more adventurous multiple pan and scans for sections of your movie, export from that software using 'higher quality' on rendering, select 16.9 widescreen, and DV stream PAL as your export format. This stops iMovie from trying to resample it, and very possibly giving a choppy or jerky movement to your imports. Using the above settings will give a perfect result, and you can freely use iMovie's transitions to join an imported item to footage created in iMovie.
I've now produced many very successful movies on these settings. It works for me, I really hope it works for you. iMovie can drive you up the wall when it doesn't give the results you know it can be capable of.
Quicksilver G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Thanks for the idea, Steve. I like working with the HDV 720P high def projects for slideshows too. The quality is awfully nice to work with and it delivers projects that will work far better with tomorrow's hardware. Although we can't burn HD DVDs yet, hopefully that day will come soon, and the HDV slideshows we create today will look very good on the HDTVs we own tomorrow. They look good today, but they will look even better tomorrow.
It should be noted, however, that it's not necessary to create an HDV project to avoid the jaggies on still images. The cause of the jaggies in DV projects -- the type of projects we mostly make -- is well known and can be avoided. It doesn't require third-party software like Photo to Movie, but it does require avoiding a bug.
iMovie adds the jaggies after we press the Create iDVD Project button in the iDVD tab of iMovie. When that button is pressed, iMovie will ask permission to render any UN-rendered clips, including any unrendered KB images. If you grant permission to render, iMovie adds the jaggies while rendering those images.
If the clips have been previously rendered by Ken Burns, or if you refuse permission to render after pressing the button so iDVD renders them later, you don't get the jaggies.
I use Ken Burns to render images as they are imported, which it does with great quality. Once rendered, iMovie won't ask to render those images again. One reason I render with Ken Burns is so I can grant iMovie to render OTHER clips when it asks permission.
Ken Burns will render the image if the KB checkbox is turned ON when the image is imported. So turning on the checkbox avoids the bug.
If the checkbox isn't on when you import an image, you can select that KB clip in the timeline later, turn the checkbox ON, and Update the image.
Regrettably, once iMovie has added jaggies to clips they cannot be repaired. It's necessary to re-import the image and discard the flawed clip.
Karl

Shapes get random jagged edges

Hello,
I am working on a freelance logo and the client kept mentioning that my sample PDF's seem to have "smudge" on part of it, I never saw it and then I asked them to actaully SEND me the file while I was not at my primary computer so I can look at it.
It is really wierd. It seem that when you zoom in and out the shape changes and gets these ramdom jagged edges. I don't see them on my computer or phone and my client only sees them on her desktops but it does also print out with these wierd edges as well. I converted all type to lines and did an export to PDF to show her samples. I have attached photo expamples. Please help! i have never had this before. The first image shows how it is supposed to look and how it did look when I first opened, the other 2 show what happens when it gets zoomed. And it changes too, it isn't the same jagged edges everytime.
Thanks!

In IIllustrator, you woudl normally chaneg your limit (AKA miter limit, flatness) to a lower number
Since this is happening in acrobat, you may be able to fix this with your preview settings. Problem with that is your clietn would also have to change their settings. The ones under rendering is what you want to change.
If thsi dont help. you want to look at where tehis is happening and if you have overlapping vector points, would be good to clena that up. You also could jsut use object >> path >> outline stroke, to get rid of stroke, so that acorabt is nto tryign to render them (whcih goes back to the beigginng of my post as I belive the pdf rendering of miter limits is at play here - no stroked paths, no miter limits).

Vector Circle Has Jagged Edges - Why?

I'm creating a button logo in Fireworks for print use and
wanted to use Vector shapes as I thought they didn't distort.
I'm working in CMYK at 300DPI.
So I start out with a white vector circle for the outer-ring
to the button using an Anti-Alias edge:
White
Button
Then I add the inner vector cirle, same deal as before:
Blue inner
circle
So far so good.
Now I add an outer bevel effect to the blue circle to give
the button effect and....
WOOOOOAAAAHHH!!!!
The blue circle's edges have gone jagged! What happened
there? I thought that Vector shapes retained their edges because
they weren't confined to tiny pixels. What's going on, why aren't
the edges retaining their smoothness once I've applied an effect to
the shape?

For now, if you recreate the effect with an inner bevel
instead you will
get rid of the jaggies. (softness = 7)
alex
thedrumdoctor wrote:
>
quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
> thedrumdoctor wrote:
> > I tried the an export as a 24 Bit PNG and the edges
remaind jagged.
> >
> > I tried the same experiment in Photoshop with the
Vectors shapes there and
> the edges were perfect. Looks like Photoshop wins!
>
> Not sure what I am doing differently. I created a 300
dpi image in FW,
> drew the circle, filled it with blue and added a soft
bevel. No jagged
> edges. At 100% magnification things look fine on screen.
>
> Did similar in PS and got a very similar result,
although the bevel is a
> bit smoother.
>
> Are you referring to printed work, or screen work?
>
> Would really appreciate seeing the original png and
samples of the
> Photoshop vs Fireworks end results. If it's a
reproducible issue, it
> should be reported as a bug for future releases.
>
> --
> Jim Babbage - .:Community MX:. & .:Adobe Community
Expert:.
>
http://www.communityMX.com/
> CommunityMX - Free Resources:
>
http://www.communitymx.com/free.cfm
> ---
> .:Adobe Community Expert for Fireworks:.
> Adobe Community Expert
>
http://tinyurl.com/2a7dyp
> ---
> See my work on Flickr
>
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jim_babbage/
>
>
>
> Well, I've repeated the exercise with a new png file and
uploaded it here
>
http://www.nlauro.f9.co.uk/images/test.vector.circles.png
>
> As you can see, the edges are still jagged on the blue
circle. You can
> download this and see for yourself anyway.
>
> This was done in Fireworks MX so I'm not using the
latest release of Fireworks.
>
> The shape was eventually destined for print work by the
way. As much as I
> don't like the clumsy way PS forces you to create vector
shapes, it produced a
> near perfect smooth edge on the same experiment.
>

Jagged edges/pixilation

I'm trying to print a photo in iPhoto and it's coming out with jagged edges. When I print it as a 2x3 it looks ok, but when I print it as a 4x6 it blurs and pixelates.
When I printed it awhile back, even though the original is not as sharp as it could be, it printed ok, but now it's coming out with the images quite jagged.
I've tried varying the size of the image, but I'm not getting anywhere.
Thanks.

That image file is way to small to print anything larger than your 2 x 3 or smaller. Fairly decent prints can be made at 150 dpi which would limit that file to about 2.3 x 1.6.
That looks like the size of the thumbnails in iPhoto. Where did you get that image file? How did it get into iPhoto?

Jagged Edges on Raster Images in After Effects/Encore

I've been working on a project that uses movie files made in After Effects and then brought into Encore to create a DVD. The problem I'm having is jagged edges appearing on raster photo images - things like people's chins especially look jagged. All looks ok on my monitor/computer, but once I watch it on my flat screen TV I get these jagged edges. I've tried transcoding Progressive in Encore but that didn't help.
Someone please help me!!!

Yes, it's MPEG compression, and no, there is no "flip a switch" magic cure. Probably what happens is:
- you are not suitably color correcting your image, resulting in oversaturationthat's bad for compression
- you have thin lines and only slightly angled edges on the photos
- you are not using motion blur
- you have overcranked our TV's colors
- the TV does some image processing/ scaling/ frame rate coversion
These ad a million other things will conribute to percception of poor video, but as I said, geerally there is no simple solution here. Compression isunavoidabl, but there are of course ways to improve the results. You should do a little reading up on this. O the AE side you may improved by choosing suitabe renderr settings, using a tiny bit of blur, enabling motion blur, chnaging the motion of the items, adjusting their colors - whichever works. Again, no geeral recipe here. Good compression is a art we all have had to learn over the years ad the best advise can't replace persoal experience.
Mylenium

Imported images have jagged edges when scaled down

Perhaps I'm missing something really obvious (like the quality thing in the After Effects timeline), but I imported a Photoshop image, a logo, scaled it down to 15%, and it has jagged edges. Ditto for a TIFF version of same. Starting resolution is plenty large.

You can adjust the apparent size of the image in the "media" tab of the property inspector. Select the photo in the media bin (not the layer in the timeline), then the media tab in the insepctor.
try reducing the size of the image to the size you are scaling it to (of course, you'll have to adjust the scale property of objects in the timeline which use that image). for example, if the image is 1000px wide, and you're scaling it 15%, then adjust the media size to 150px and restore the scale to 100%.
YMMV but it's worked well for me. sometimes adding a slight gaussian blur helps (<.25). it would be more effective to scale in an image editing app (like photoshop) to the desired size, but this is more flexible.
-r

Jagged edges on vector art and fonts on R1900 using AI CS5 in OSX

OS 10.6.4 (Mac Pro 2x2.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 12GB ram 1066 MHz DDR3)
Problem with the R1900 Printer and AI CS5
I have been using the same printer with CS4 without any trouble whatsoever for at least 5yrs. Beautiful quality prints without so much as itch and great color control...
In October I finally made the switch to CS5 and my printing capability goes to hell.
Quality printing straight from AI to a non-postcript inkjet printer such as the R1900 doesn't seem to be an option anymore...
I get jagged edges on vector art and fonts. I do graphic arts/logos/prints and this is a huge issue...!
Apparently I have to save my AI files as PDFs and print from there, but this poses extra steps, troubles in sizing, colors, page set up...
I mean nothing beats being able to print direct from AI... I cannot understand what the problem is all of a sudden.
At home I have a late '06 Mac Pro running CS4 and printing successfully to a C88 epson inkjet printer under OSX 10.5
What is the matter, please help, this is cramping my style and performance???
thank you
JF
New York

Ok this would not be a problem with 10.4.11 on a Power PV Mac but on an Intel Mac running 10.6.4 or running anything above 10.4.11 on any Mac you would need a postscript driver. Problem, there is no postscript driver for this model Printer this is actually a photo quality printer, that is what it does best.
So what to do the best one can do is to save the file as a pdf and print from Acrobat. There is no other way regardless of what one would like and expect.

Jagged edges using DVCPRO 50

yeesh.
We are capturing footage that was shot at 24 fps, 16:9 anamorphic standard def on an SDX900 camera using on DVCpro tapes, off of an AJSD93 deck over firewire. We capture with the DVCPRO50-NTSC codec, and have tried both 23.98 and 24.
and we are PLAGUED with these frames with horrible jagged edges. This appears to be an interlace/field dominance problem, but uh it was shot progressive. Any of you masters got any ideas?
below is the example frame
Using a quicksilver g4 finalcut 5.04
Thank you so much!
Dillon
g4 desktop Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Please pardon the intrusion…
Hi, Randy!
Congratulations on advancing to Level 4!
At the Water Cooler in the Level 4 Lounge, we are throwing virtual confetti in celebration of your attainment of Level 4-dom. Would you care to join us at the Water Cooler?
On the Discussions Home Page, down at the bottom, you will, hopefully, soon find the Lounge link available to you. It should show up for you within the next 24 hours if all goes as it should, but they have been "experiencing some technical difficulties" sometimes resulting in long and unforeseen delays. Have faith, keep looking for the link on the Discussions Home Page, and we'll keep the party going until you get there.
Hope to see you soon!

How do I get rid of jagged edges in Photoshop?

Can someone tell me how to get rid of jagged edges in Photoshop? I've tried using the refine tool and checking the anti-aliasing/smooth option, but neither appears to work. Here is the problem. I use Photoshop to create the images for heat transfers that I press on to T Shirts. In transparent mode, I cannot see the edges, nor can I see them once the transfer has been printed, but when I press the image on to a T-shirt the edges are extremely jagged. Also, when I add a solid blue background in Photoshop, I can see the edges. I am using the TW Cen MT Condensed Extra Bold font (140.13 pt).
Additional Questions:
Are there fonts that inherently behave this way when stretched?
Are there fonts that hold up more consistently when stretched?
Will rasterizing the image resolve this problem, or at least give me a higher quality image when stretched?
Is there a way of using inches instead of points for font size and if so, where do I change it?
Is there anyone out there who uses Photoshop to create text and images for T-Shirts? If you have the answer to any of my questions, please respond ASAP. It is extremely important that I be able to get consistent results clean, smooth images that transfer well onto fabric. I am attaching my text image on transparent background, as wells as a solid blue background. You may have to zoom in on the gold and black image to see the jagged edges on the fabric.

You have AA set to None in the Options bar is my guess. Use whatever option looks best, but never use None.

Images imported from QT exported image sequence have jagged edges

Hi
I've come across something strange which I'd like to resolve.
I export an image sequence from QuickTime.
I then import this into Aperture.
But the images imported into Aperture now have jagged edges where there has been any movement in the original footage.
The images originally exported from QuickTime look absolutely fine when viewed with preview, they have the expected blurring on moving objects, but no jaggedness.
Now, a bit more detail.
The footage I'm exporting from was shot by me and came from a Final Cut Pro edit.
The codec in the QT movie is Apple Intermediate Codec and this is interlaced.
The jagged edges on movement look to me like the problem of interlaced not being converted to progressive.
However the exported images from QuickTime don't display this when viewed in Preview, it is only when viewed in Aperture that the jagged edges become apparent.
I have tried exporting from QuickTime to jpg, png and psd, but the problem is identical no matter which format I use.
I really want to now use Aperture to improve these exported images, but with this jagged edge problem I can't.

Hi JNorris--
Sounds like you need to apply the deinterlace filter (Effects tab: video filters: video: deinterlace) to the stills your exporting.
See if that makes a difference to start.
T.

Saving Shapes to PNG Causes Jagged Edges

Hello,
I use a Mac and I have Illustrator CS6 and I've noticed something strange. I create shapes using the pentool. When I save the shape to a PNG with a transparent background, it looks smooth, however when I import and resize the shape it pixelates and it has jagged edges. I've attached a screenshot so you can see what I mean.
I'm wondering if it's a setting or something that I don't have turned on (or off). Or perhaps it's something else. I'm curious why this is happening. I’ve turned on the Anit-aliased Artwork and changed the ppi to 300…but to no avail.
Any help would be appreciated…but I’m new to Illustrator and have no idea, so please use detailed and basic instructions that a noob can understand.
Thanks in advance.

peta2005 wrote:
however when I import and resize the shape it pixelates and it has jagged edges.
You answered your own question. A png is a raster image therefore resizing the image will pixelate it.

Jagged Edges on Images in Dreamweaver CS3

When placing an image with a transparent background in Dreamweaver CS3, I keep encountering ugly jagged
edges, whether I save the image as a .png or a .gif. I've tried everything I can think of to eliminate this problem,
and still the same results.
The only thing that has worked to eliminate the jagged white edge has been to place a background layer behind the image,
but that poses yet another problem because the hex colors in Photoshop and Dreamweaver will not match either.
Frazzled!! Somebody please help!

That's not a problem with DW. The jagged edge you see on your phone image is a jagged edge on your phone image!
I got a bit of a better result after about 5 minutes fumbling with the eraser in Photoshop:
http://www.martcol.co.uk/test/phone.html
It shouldn't take too much to get your original good enough to lose that jagged edge.
Martin

Jagged edges on photos.

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for