| 6/03/06 ~ 8:28 -0800 : | Phil M, | " Re: Dock icon transparency problem "
FFL was suggesting to design the icon at double size (256x256). That is a good trick assuming the interpolation algorithm is half-way decent (and Quartz is pretty good in this regard). You can even write your own by averaging 4 pixels (colors and mask) into a single pixel in the target image.
Double size and half draw can give good results, triple sizing is a bit better.
Another option is that you can also up-sample (enlarge) a picture and then down-sample to make it more anti-aliased. Seth, I think that is what you though FFL was suggesting, and you are right that this would effectively blur the image a little bit... but in some cases it would look a little better than the original.
I was speaking of _designing_ at high scale. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
