Exporting Text from Photos

[Sharon Villines]

I have a Photos file that needs to be reduced to 60px high and I can't get it to export in any format and stay as crisp and color true as the .aphoto file. What else should I try?

 

 

 24.08.10.Logo+Text+TransGr60px.afphoto

[GarryP]

I can’t really comment on the colour change – it’s possibly because the 'container' document is using a CMYK colour space while the embedded document has an RGB colour space and you’re exporting to an RGB colour space? – but reducing something the size of your original embedded document down to 60 pixels high is always going to give you some issues unless you have taken various precautions to make sure that it can be reduced nicely.

[walt.farrell]

11 hours ago, Sharon Villines said:

I have a Photos file that needs to be reduced to 60px high and I can't get it to export in any format and stay as crisp and color true as the .aphoto file. What else should I try?

We would probably need the original file, not the reduced-size one, to provide more useful advice.

[GarryP]

27 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

We would probably need the original file, not the reduced-size one

I think the uploaded document may be the ‘original file’.

I think the main problem they are having is, as mentioned above, with the size reduction of the embedded document (1442×1461 pixels in size) into the smaller image size.

I could be wrong though.

[walt.farrell]

Thanks, @GarryP.

For some reason, when I first viewed it on my iPad the text was already pixelated. This time, it looks OK.

It's unclear to me whether the question is just about the logo becoming blurred, or the text itself.

[GarryP]

Yeah, I think we need more information about which “it” they are having a problem with and what “crisp and color true” means.

[walt.farrell]

15 minutes ago, GarryP said:

Yeah, I think we need more information about which “it” they are having a problem with and what “crisp and color true” means.

Yes, but in any case we can say that reducing something from 1460 px to 60 px is not going to work well in a raster output format. That is a major loss of information and consequently sharpness.

[GarryP]

Absolutely.

60 pixels isn’t enough space to put something as complex as what we can see in the logo without lots of compromise and manual experimentation.

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, GarryP said:

Absolutely.

60 pixels isn’t enough space to put something as complex as what we can see in the logo without lots of compromise and manual experimentation.

In addition to having only 4% of the total data with the size reduction, there are also shadow effects that are going to help blur things even further in the logo. It might need a complete redesign.

[Sharon Villines]

Thank you very much. This is very helpful. I took the original large file with layers and reduced it to 60px high. I attached the original.

 

24.08.12.Logo7sqBluesGray3000px.afphoto

[GarryP]

14 hours ago, Sharon Villines said:

I took the original large file with layers and reduced it to 60px high.

That’s the main problem.

You are trying to reduce an image which is 1461 pixels in height, which contains a lot of detail, down to only 60 pixels in height.

By doing so you will lose a lot of detail and will have other problems.

I would suggest learning about what pixels are – and what their limitations are – before continuing, because otherwise you will continue to be frustrated in your endeavours.