sharp clean lines

I've tried to do clean delinations of color by enlarging the painting to 
500+ and go pixel by pixel - but it still doesn't look as "clean" as
I'd 
like it to  -- are there any other suggestions on how to get a really 
straignt (or curved) clean line in my paintings?? 

Since with pixels you are working on a square grid, there's no way to obtain 
clean curved lines: eventually jaggedness should appear, which would be more 
noticeable when zooming in. Anti-aliasing kind of fixes this, since it 
places some semi-opaque pixels to the side of the pixel you are painting, 
which optically smooths the line, but if done incorrectly can sometimes turn 
it a little bit blurry.

_mosh



"Robin Waters" <robin@bajabuddies.com> wrote in message 
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>
> I've tried to do clean delinations of color by enlarging the painting to 
> 500+ and go pixel by pixel - but it still doesn't look as "clean"
as I'd 
> like it to  -- are there any other suggestions on how to get a really 
> straignt (or curved) clean line in my paintings??
>
>