Hi, I am back. I used the magnifying effect in my header however I have another problem. If you look at pic you will see the antialiasing of the text is not clean much, especially the white lines of "k". What I did: I used the Tandelle Bold font, then I selected each font using the fuzzy tool and added gradient black-white, FG black- Edit- stroke selection 1px, then Select - Shrink 1px, FG white - Edit- stroke selection 1px. Antialiasing was always switched on. Does someone have an idea how to make the lines smooth?

Here you may see it better. http://www.trekkershoes.com/

Most importantly, do not use the Fuzzy Tool to select your text; instead use "Layer->Transparency->Alpha to Selection".

If that alone does not provide sufficient improvement to satisfy, you might also try using a combination of "Select->To Path" followed by "Edit->Stroke Path" as a substitute for "Edit->Stroke Selection".

An additional note to saulgoode's good advice up there. Sometimes a font itself is rough before you even stroke it. When that happens to me, I do Alpha to Selection on the text then Selection to Path. Unselect. Delete the text and then to Path to Selection and refill with the text color.

Paths are Bezier curves and therefore vectors and the quality is much better.

Then you can use the same path to stroke using the Paintbrush tool.

I tried as saulgoode suggested Alpha to Selection but the result was the same. It looks like the font is rough itself as O said. To be honest I´ve never used the path tool before. Can you please advise how to to do it step by step? With all effects I wanted to do (gradient and stroking the selection).

If you could create a new transparent image, add a text layer containing "TrekkerShoes.com" (using your Tandelle Bold font), merge down, save the result to a PNG file, and then post the PNG file here (as an attachment), we might be able to determine more precisely what is going on.

Posting the whole banner with the text without additional effects in a .xcf file.

The main problem seems to be that that is just a very low quality font.

So do you think I can´t improve it?

I magnified it to 400% and I could see why these strokes looked the way they did. The whole corners on some of the text is missing.
There must be a way to fix it and if there is, someone here will probably know the answer.....

That's a shame. It's a commercial font so it has to be paid for. I found a page where it was for sale and there's a place you can type in your text. It looks rough in there too. I don't know what you could do to help it.

http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/typodermic/tandelle/bold/

I don´t know where I get it, O. Probably it is already a part of my windows OS. Here is the font for downloading.

Nina, I deleted your attachment. The font is copyrighted. In the font it says this: "© ... Do not distribute. Report piracy ..."

I don't want you to get into trouble ... O