Add Subpixel-Rendering to your Text Layers

Add Subpixel-Rendering to your Text Layers
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I finally figured out a way to add subpixel hinted font-rendering to text in Photoshop. For those of you not knowing what that means, please read The Ails Of Typographic Anti-Aliasing.

The usual way, to smooth text in Photoshop, is to choose one of the different anti-aliasing techniques in the drop down menu. The downside as you know is, that the smoothing of the text is done by greyscale and not by blending different channels.
But it’s doable. And I saved my workflow as an Action. All of you can download and use it for free. But the trick has a downside, too: You receive three text-layers just for one piece of text. The reason for that is, that I needed to blend the different channels and it’s not even rasterizable.
It is still editable, but you need to edit everything three times. My recommendation: Before you run the Action, copy the layer and make one of them invisible. Then, if you need to make an edit on the subpixel-hinted text, delete it, make the edit on your old text layer and then run the Action again.







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