Preserved Topic: contract & anti-alias

Hi,

Is it possible to anti-alias a selection AFTER contracting it. I've haven't been able to accomplish this with a rasterized type layer. Thanks.

Try this; with your contracted selection, save it as a channel, fill selection with white, give it a few progressive g-blurs (8-4-2 or 4-3-2) then open the levels, and play with the sliders until you've a nice smooth edge. It'll take a coupld of tries before you get it just right, but you can do it.

I actually wanted to create a cutout in the contracted selection. I'm trying to give the type a 3d-ish 'rim'. Is there another way of doing this. Sorry, I don't know eough about photoshop to get too creative with the tools. btw thanks for the tip. It should come in handy in the future.

Make a copy of your type and use Edit > Transform > Scale on the top layer. That should give you the anti-aliased edge you want...

Or you could just stroke the active selection. That might work for ya.

You could always give the selection a really light feathering (Select > Feather). 0.2 is the minimum value for feathering so I would suggest using that.

Thanks ppl... I'll try this stuff out.