[ashura]

Hi,

I notice that when I use the brush tool in FMX2004, the lines you made are automatically adjusted to smoothen. I'm just wondering what this feature is called. It's kinda similar to Adobe Illustrator but I've never seen a feature like this in either Photoshop nor Painter. THANKS A LOT IN ADVANCE!!

[Frothlord]

It's converting the brush stroke to a vector shape. Maybe its called vectorizing. Vector shapes dont use pixels like a raster image does (in which case the shape can be sized to any size without losing its resolution)., which im sure ya knew, but in case ya didnt..

[eyewoo]

[pxy]

it creates them larger, then sizes them down

anti aliasing / dithering

wooo that was long

flash uses 2x or 4x anti aliasing

2x - for each pixel, 4 are averaged to produce it

4x - for each pixel, 16 are averaged to produce it

it's the same as editing at 50% or 25% size in photoshop (cache levels 2 or 3 required, for each number there's a 1/2 size version created of the image)

newer 3d graphiucs cards have anti aliasing capability too, but it's done differently there (as mentioned in links, or like only anti aliasing polygon edges, or calling 4x when it's only 4 pixels averaged) and then there are a lot of optimizations possible (such as when rendering text, only doing 1 letter at a time, to not use up too much memory, which ps7 last i tried doesn't)
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[Ian Jones]

pxy, the question is not referring to antialiasing... but smoothing of the path of a brush stroke.

[pxy]

ahaha. oh mr helpful.
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