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Hi Guys,

Not sure why but whenever I use photoshop to make a JPEG image and add text to it the text is always a bit fuzzy when uploaded to the web. The text was black on white and I used AA - smooth. Saved as quality 12.

Is there a trick to using text to make it look better?

Cheers,
Andrew

jpg use lossy compression which causes words etc to go fuzzy unlike gif which use colour indexing, If you have to use jpgs save them at 12 (as you have done) and the fuzzyness should be greatly reduced. Also Photoshop can be shitty at times with the way it handles small point text, have you tried the sharp setting?

JPGs are perfectly suited for photos only.

Another option is to save them as PNG files which most photo editors have & browsers support.

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Portable Network Graphics (PNG) is a bitmapped image format that employs lossless data compression. PNG was created to improve upon and replace GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) as an image-file format not requiring a patent license. It is pronounced pronounced /ˈpɪŋ/ ping[1] or spelled out as P-N-G. The PNG initialism is optionally recursive, unofficially standing for “PNG's Not GIF”.[2]

PNG supports palette-based (palettes of 24-bit RGB colors), greyscale or RGB images. PNG was designed for transferring images on the Internet, not professional graphics, and so does not support other color spaces (such as CMYK).

PNG files nearly always use file-extension "PNG" or "png" and are assigned MIME media type "image/png"
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Cheers
Bruce