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Aliasing - InDesign Tutorial

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Aliasing

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Now another term which you most likely will come across is aliasing, which is most noticeable on type when the resolution is too low. We will start to see these hard edges on the curved details on type, which is also referred to as stair-stepping. And the method of anti-aliasing is what can help us to improve this by averaging the colors on the edges and smoothing them out. is another close-up look which shows this stair stepping perfectly it even looks like a stair in this case and the result of anti-aliasing and how it can smooth it out even at this close-up view. When you are working with type in Photoshop for instance you will see that anti-aliasing is automatically applied but of course it's something that you can take off if I select this text here and change the type of anti-aliasing from the default sharp to none we can see the result immediately and even from a distance this will be noticeable but if I zoom a little bit closer we can probably see it even better so this is…

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