3 months ago asked, I wondered why, and I have found no solution. After working many hours labeling street names on a map all my text appears to have lost dpi. Can anyone help?
Likely, each time you export, import, export, import your losing a bit of quality. This is like a photo copier. If you make a copy of a page, use that to make a copy, use that copy to make a copy ect.. After a few rounds, your going to lose quality. Its the nature of raster. Do it enough and the final copy won't ever be recognizable. Ideally, using a raster format that was loseless, this shouldn't happen. But if your working with any compression, it is going to happen, such as jpg. Plus it is hard to say what else is happening switching between programs.
You probably should stick to one program to do all your changes, thus avoiding the degradation. If you can't for some reason, try to do all your changes at once and not in a back and forth manner.
If you make all your art as vector from the beginning, this will never happen.
Not exactly what I'd hoped for but thank you. I will discipline myself.
If you need to use bitmap, you should start using high resolution bitmap (300 dpi at real size). It's better to reduce it than enlarge
If you HAVE to use a bitmap, save it as a TIFF, which doesn't use compression, rather than a jpg, which does Every time you resave a jpg, it is compressed further...
I truly need the tools in paint . Are their any disadvantages working only their if I save to TIFF?
it it's a bitmap (TIF, JPG, etc) it always become to pixels after save. Then, it's bad for small size, since it becomes illegible. You should use big size and high resolution images, but that means biggest files. For example, a bitmap of 50x80 cm at 300 dpi will look better than a bitmap of 5x8 cm at 72 dpi. But if you enlarge a small image with text, the text doesn't recovery. because it was already merged to the low resolution image.
Sorry, but the only real solution for having good quality is to type all the text again. And if you will do it, the best way is to use a vector program, that will allows you enlarge or reduce without lose quality.