Fireworks - Paths & Pixelation (stuck!)

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Right… where am I going wrong?

Took a photo (jpg), cut-out section I wanted, converted marquee to path, then was disappointed that it was pixelating… so, tried the hard-fill, feather, anti-alias… but all still pixelate badly.

So… copy the path over into a new file PNG… still pixelating!

How do I get a path to do normal clean vector fills???

Cheers…

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are you sure your zoom is 100%? fireworks usually pixelates everything when magnification ist not 100%…

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what was/is the quality of the .jpg?

Is is a photo you took or got off the web?

I wonder how many times it has been manipulated before you got it.

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I ripped it off the net… but that shouldn’t matter, as I just used that to create some paths. Then delete the rest of the JPG and copy it over the PATH only into the PNG.

Then… do a simple fill on it. Then when zooming-in it pixelates, whereas I would expect Fireworks to re-render as a vector object and make it nice-n-smooth for me.

Then again, just tried drawing a plain circle, and zooming in, and that pixelates also. Try it yourself… really annoying when you’re trying to work on a big piece and what to zoom-in to touch-up the details.

Verdict: BACK TO ILLUSTRATOR & P-SHOP!! :mario:

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yea, that is normal, the pixelation of paths. I would use illustrator if you need to zoom in of paths. I think of FW as a vector web tool.