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Hi There
Is it just my eyes or my monitor or do I really have jaggies? The quality is set to anti-alias and I have given the circles straight lines as edges. They have jaggies and I cannot get rid of them. I have searched the forum and most of the posts say to set the quality to anti-alias, which it already is or the threads are mostly text related.
Can someone advise? Many thanks!!
The Xara file is attached - please check to see if you also have jaggies on your PC.
No jaggies on my Dell 24" - I zoomed in to max (25601%) still no jaggies. Though I was going epileptic with those colours :eek:
Tks Sledger - the jaggies go away if I zoom in as well, but that does not help me. Do you totally not have any jaggies even at 100%?
I have just installed and re-installed and the problem did not go away, I thought that may help.
Well those are christmassy colours, be careful of the up coming season if you are epileptic. :D
the red and the green on your image are sharply contrasting colors
no jaggies - but I know what sledger means :D
slight roughness visible - but thats monitor pixels on the top curve
Nope - no jaggies at 100% for me Barry..
The colours of Christmas may change at a rate in direct relation to the amount of festive spirit one enjoys perhaps?
Maybe paralytic could be more accurate?
I do notice that the screen pitch of the varioust brand/quality LCD monitors I sell can often show some anomolies on one yet not so on another, especially with text (before I install ClearType). Couple this with an optical illusion due to the two colour temperatures it may accentuate the jaggie effect. Try changing the colours to something less Christmassy (calmer) and see if the jaggie effect disppears?
and theres the more technical explanation :D
Barry,
is the antialiasing slider at 100%... If not you will see jaggies...:)
Hi,
I get no jaggies on 19" lcd at 1280x1024 at any magnification altho the red and green colors are 'busy', but that is to be expected.
Jim
No problems here - 17" LCD at 1280 x 1024
Thanks for the help guys, it must be my monitor, a four year old Philips. Pity, that was going to be one of my colour schemes for my Christmas graphics sets.
It is the first time that Xara has let me down, but then again it could be my monitor which is on the old side now, but I dare not go ahead thinking that they are fine, for how will I know?? .... and I cannot change my monitor now although I would love one of those huge flat screens!! (Santa are you listening????) :D
Just in case you thought I had gone totally nuts with my outrageous colour choice, I have attached some pics of my new work, just so that you can see I am not totally insane. The HO HO HO santa is all done in xara and the others are drawn in Xara and shaded in Paint Shop Pro.
Hi John, the slider was at 100% and thanks Scotty and ss-kalm for testing.
Your kind assistance is most appreciated. As I said - it must be my monitor. It is a great pity as it has put me off one of my projects.
Thank you everyone for all the help.
Jaggy free zone here too, Barry.
...or to misquote Sledger - it's an optical illusion, it just doesn't look like one.
Saludos,
Bob.
OTOH, I am seeing some jags on a Lenovo/IBM ThinkVision 19" at 1600x1200. Not terrible, but they're there. And it's not just the red & green. I've been having the same problem in SWiSHmax with red circles on white.
As for ClearType, having it turned on is the only way I can work with an LCD (no surprise), but I'm very aware of the colors in the anti-aliasing. I can't tell you how badly I miss my CRT.:(
Hi again Barry
Some cross posting above.
Just seen your work for Christmas, that's a very nice
use of Paintshop Pro for the shading.
Very festive, nice job.
Saludos,
Bob.
Just a thought, Barry, do you have another vector application with
which you could create some similar red and green shapes?
If the result is the same, you'll know it's your monitor and not Xara.
Saludos,
Bob.
Barry
Very nice Santa! I like the hand coming out of the elbow hole you added:D
Some colors on certain backgrounds appear that way.
Note the gold looks fine. Try another shade.
Hi Bob
I took your advice and did some Vector circles in Paint shop Pro - - - the jaggies are still there but not as bad, but who wants to work with vectors in anything else but Xara?? I will just have to shelve my circle idea or change the colours.
If the cross posting was about my images, i was just being a tad sensitive about my colour scheme;) I could not put them in the gallery as they are not shaded in Xara. Thank you for your kind comments though and help.
you see an elbow hole do you? well I see a pair of sagging boobies now with black things hanging off the end! :D Thanks for pointing that out, I will go and fix that immediately. :) It is amazing that sometimes, we just don't see things and it takes someone else to point it out. Thank you.
ok - - i was panicked at having a Santa with either elbow holes or sagging boobies, so here is a quick fix - think it looks better now. :)
ok - - - do you think he has legs??? :D
he has legs now too. :D
Just kidding Barry;)
I just thought the expression on her face just matched it.:eek:
In Australia, apparently he's not allowed to say "HO HO HO" anymore as that could offend some ladies. He has to say "HA HA HA".
Hi Aridzone, no you were right, it did look strange, and I apprecitate your comment totally. No offence. It is that I have just been in such a rush to get as much done as I can as there are only 35 days left to Christmas!! :eek: It did indeed look strange and I appreciate your feedback about the design.
As I said, I was so busy I needed to slow down and "look" what I was doing.
Anyway - - - I have attached the tree with the new colours, I made the inner cirlce darker and the line lighter, that helped. Not exactly what I wanted but better quality on my monitor. I cannot take a chance as we all have different monitors.
No more jaggies Barry!
But you missed one.
That is just so bizzarre and stupid. Really what is the world coming to? Does everything have to have a sexual undertone?? HA HA HA is enough to scare any child!! I know I would be weeping if some big fat man in a red suite approched me saying HA HA HA, even as an adult. :D Would love to see the results of this new law, I read about it. If the kids are happy then that is cool, but if they do run off weeping or look terrified then the ho is back in town so to say!! :D They should do a trial run and video it before making it a silly law. And what would happen should a "ho ho ho" slip out? Jail??
Tks Aridzone - I spotted that one. I have made added some features. ;)
Barry, great pics. If you want us to see what you are seeing do a screengrab or a snapshot or something and post that here instead of uploading the image itself. Personally I use TrayCap for such things.