Firewoks

How to sharpen those soft lines?

[le_gber]

Hi all,

I have to design a site with lots of circles and I was wondering how you guy do to make them look sharpe?

Thanks

Leo

[jetboy_70]

I'm not familiar with the Chinese version, but in Fireworks MX 'Alter path' under the 'Modify' menu offers a number of fill options that'll affect the edges of vector objects. If you need more control, try adding a stroke and modifying the stroke settings.

If your circles are already bitmaps, you're pretty much limited to the sharpen or unsharp mask filters.

[limbo]

You can also alter the media type (pencil airbrush, felt tip etc) and weight of the stroke, in the stroke pallette. You may have the stroke set to hard line - try soft line. Also pencil is often a cleaner less "jaggy" stroke than say basic line.

Experiment and see what you feel looks best.

Ta

Limbo

[le_gber]

I used the 1px soft stroke I was just wondering if there is any way to make the circle/vector graph sharper

Leo

[slade7]

Use 1px hard line, and if the circle appears too jagged on the edges, crank the image resolution up.

The higher res will make your filesize larger, but I often do that - make a lower res version of a logo for the web and a high-res version for printing