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Design Photoshop Foundations Vector Shapes Using Vector Shapes

Monique Maree
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Monique Maree
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I want to use my image I created as a desktop background but the image distorts / is blurred.

How do I correct this? I tried saving it to JPEG but still does the same

3 Answers

Samantha Atkinson
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Samantha Atkinson
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Hi Monique,

Did you create your desktop image with vector shapes or vector elements, because if so, you would be able to resize without lost of quality when you resize it to fit on your desktop.

If you were creating an image made up of vector elements did you check in the options bar that you had chosen Shape (which is Vector) and not pixels (which is raster)?

If it is saved as a JPEG or pixel based image and you try to enlarge the raster/pixel image pass a certain point of the amount of pixels and resolution of the original size of the image it will blur. Which I think means you would have to enlarge your pixel based image and all the elements in it in Photoshop.

Hope that helps

Monique, try to find out what your screen resolution is, and then make sure the original image isn't something much smaller than what you've tried to output.

Probably you export it too small. Try in the settings during export if you can increase height and width (you can).

:)