- Hide the guides. At this point, you’re finished with the guide-
lines. To hide them so you can focus on your composition,
choose View→Show→Guides. Or better yet, press Ctrl+ or
�- (the semicolon key, to the right of the L). The guidelines
will no longer be visible, nor will they snap. - Change the antialiasing to Strong. Now comes one of Pho-
toshop’s subtlest formatting options. Located in the center
of the options bar (as labeled in Figure 11-7 on page 378), the
antialiasing setting controls the way the outlines of characters
blend with their backgrounds. Your options are:- Sharp, which manages to antialias the type while maintain-
ing sharp corners. This preserves the best character defi-
nition, especially when applied to small letters with serifs
(the flourishes at corners and ends of letters). - Crisp, which rounds the corners slightly.
- Strong, which shores up small type by expanding the edges
very slightly outward, thus resulting in bolder characters. - Smooth, which supposedly rounds corners even more than
Crisp. In practice, the two settings are virtually identical. - None, which turns off antialiasing and leaves the jagged
transitions. For Web work, this is a terrible setting. But for
high-resolution print work, it helps reduce some of the blur
that can result from antialiasing.
- Sharp, which manages to antialias the type while maintain-
Figure 11-14.Creating and Formatting Text 385