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Old 12-25-2008, 10:26 PM   #1
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Angry Problems with photoshop's outter glow/fade.

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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Old 12-26-2008, 01:44 AM   #2
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Default Re: Problems with photoshop's outter glow/fade.

I had the same problem, outer glow is a bitch. All I can say is try playing with the options and color.

This thread is in the wrong section.
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Old 12-26-2008, 01:52 AM   #3
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Default Re: Problems with photoshop's outter glow/fade.

are you using .png?
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Old 12-26-2008, 02:26 AM   #4
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Default Re: Problems with photoshop's outter glow/fade.

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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Old 12-27-2008, 03:47 AM   #5
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Default Re: Problems with photoshop's outter glow/fade.

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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Old 12-27-2008, 04:57 AM   #6
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Default Re: Problems with photoshop's outter glow/fade.

but i've seen plenty of transparent cd-titles
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Old 12-27-2008, 06:50 AM   #7
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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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Old 12-27-2008, 07:08 AM   #8
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jpeg doesn't support alpha channel, IIRC.
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jpeg doesn't support alpha channel, IIRC.
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.

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Default Re: Problems with photoshop's outter glow/fade.

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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Old 12-27-2008, 11:45 PM   #11
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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
I'm really not good with computers. I didn't know the format could affect its appearance in SM. So .png with a transparent background should work fine?

And thanks a lot guys for all the replies.
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I'm really not good with computers. I didn't know the format could affect its appearance in SM. So .png with a transparent background should work fine?

And thanks a lot guys for all the replies.
Yes, for the most part, I'd say whatever photoshop stuff you save, unless requested under a certain size, should be saved as a .png, since it's a file format that doesn't lose quality as it's saved.

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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Old 12-29-2008, 02:30 AM   #13
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Default Re: Problems with photoshop's outter glow/fade.

It worked!!

Thanks, guys!!!

I was able to do Dark Sonic's cd title request:

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