Hi, I have this problem with text in photoshop! When I type something, the text is very uhm how do you say this..pixely bad quality! Like in my entry today, I made a photo of my hands with a book...and I wrote "ticketbook" on it, but the quality isn't all that! and when I push enter so it goed a row down, well that doesn't work anymore! strange! Can someone tell me what's wrong?!

Cheers!

I saw a tutorial about this the other day. I'll try to find it again. Text will get jitters when you rotate it or resize it. to get rid of this, just right click on the layer and rasterize it. That way it won't be as jittery when you rotate, move, resize or do whatever to it.
You can't edit the text after you rasterize it, though, so beware.

This is just a simple answer. The hardcore PS guys probably know a lot better what you're talking about.

-Chris

well there are types of texts that are supposed to look pixlated

pixely jittery! almost sounds like jibidi jibida and goodbye for now!

or you make the text a .jpg in a new document (don't close cause you will get a background color if you reopen it) and then put it in your chop... then you can do all you want with it,... only not edit as text anymore. Not sure if it works, but i think it will. Okey don't listen to me , i don't know that stuff cause i dont use text much in photoshop Just sounds like i know something... i like that idea!

Use a huge font size. Add some gaussian blur, rasterize type and then resize and transform.

click on the T in the tool palette, on the options palette check the drop down list with two small "a"s

i don't know which version of ps you use, but if it's more than 6.0, text is vector: it means that as long as you don't rasterize it, you can rotate, resize etc, without losing quality. Have you tried the anti-aliasing settings?

Ok, I can't add anything to thbegin's comments other than
I feel your pain on this one.

Yeah I used to hate anything I did with text with PS 4, 6 and 7. I noticed when I added fonts early on and then made the picture smaller the fonts looked real crapy. I also noticed I didn't loose as much resolution of the fonts if added them last and kept them as fonts (not rasterized).

Now that I have CS I have found it to be less crappy in handling rasterised fonts but then now I'm in the habit of not adding them until later in my creative process.

Alright people, thanks for the tips 'n tricks! I used PS CS at first but it ain't work no more...so now, back to the oldschool PS 7