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I've been having a problem with photoshop. I've been trying to make a cd title (for stepmania). Now I figured I'd just make the graphics over a transparent background and give the image an outter glow. It seemed to work fine until I viewed it in the game. The outter glow didn't fade out. It just turned a solid color producing very rough edges.
Same thing with the text. I'd use the smooth option, but once in the game the faded pixels necessary to create a smooth appearance stood out with a rough white trim. I even got other cd titles with outter glows, made slight changes, and then the same change occured. As soon as I changed a single pixel it f*cked it up. WTF am I doing wrong? This is really annoying!!!!
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I had the same problem, outer glow is a bitch. All I can say is try playing with the options and color.
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are you using .png?
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That will happen more often with a transparent background. Like when you put a filter on a layer, and it won't function properly unless there's something visible beneath it on another layer. It most likely isn't you doing something wrong, it's just the way the images work.
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Its your alpha channel. Stepmania doesn't support transparent(alpha) backgrounds, it doesn't know what to do with it so it fills it in as best it can. Do as Syhto said, create a background layer for it, not an alpha, flatten the image when you're done. Should be fine from there.
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but i've seen plenty of transparent cd-titles
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Oh I didn't see that he said cd title, my mistake. Not the right format then? Use PNG. Enable alpha.
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jpeg doesn't support alpha channel, IIRC.
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Correct. JPEG is for web browsing, IMO. If it's not going to go on a website, there's really no reason to save it in JPEG format.
PNG = <3
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In my opinion, you should always use .png. It's a wonderful file format that can be viewed on almost any computer and has reasonable file sizes while having lossless quality (most of the time).
If you use .jpg for stepmania graphics, then you're dumb. Period. lol
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And thanks a lot guys for all the replies.
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If file size is an issue (for instance, with profile backgrounds when they worked), then usually saving as a .jpg saved with a higher-than-average quality will do the trick, and keep it looking as good as possible.
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It worked!!
Thanks, guys!!! I was able to do Dark Sonic's cd title request: ![]()
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