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Custom MW vinyls. I need help with text...

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I'm having trouble making the text on my vinyls clear an legible. When I make type them out, they are very clear, but when I change the format or the completed vinyl back to indexed so that I can save it in .dds foramt, they get all screwed up. Blocky is the word I'm looking for. You can barely read what it says. The graphic comes out great, just the text comes out all gnarled up.

Any advice would be appreciated.
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Make your vinyl in a higher resolution, 1024x1024 or 2048x2048. Then when you're done, convert it to indexed mode, then resize it to 512x512. It'll help, but it won't be perfect.
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Thanks, I'll give that a try.
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BTW for those that dont know if you have the right plugin for PS ( i believe it's version is 6.81 or something like that) you can save everything as RGB, i dont know if it makes a difference but the quality seems to be a little better
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Well, the resize made the text only slightly more legible.

I've tried to save in RGB because it does look better than when you try to use "index", but when I try to save the .dds format, i get a diskread error. It won't allow me to save in that format.
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then you dont have the right plugin this is the one you need that allows you to save in RGB
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Thanks, but where do I place this file?
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this is where i placed mine C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\Plug-Ins\File Formats
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