DaveD wrote:
GIMP Version: 2.8.14
Operating System: Windows
GIMP Experience: New User
Hi
I entered text into an image using the text tool, but it looks pixelated.
I did the image again, twice the size, then shrank it, but it still looked the same.
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks
PS I put a link to the image, but it wouldn't let me post it - said I couldn't insert an external url. How can I show you the image?
If you image color-indexed (see title bar)? (normally the case if you opened a GIF).
If so, then it's expected: avoiding jagged edges requires pixels of varying degrees of opacity, while layers in color-indexed image only have "binary" opacity (fully opaque or fully transparent). You can avoid this by converting the image to full RGB (Image>Mode>RGB), but if you re-export the image to GIF (or indexed PNG) the problem will come back: all these edge pixels have different colors and you have only 256 colors total in a GIF. So many of these pixels won't get the exact color they need and the edge ill look pixelated again (though a bit less so).