There isnt a darn thing magic about this stuff, except for how it magically gives me a headache. I have tried numerous times, but still get that wonderful little pink halo on export of my png's from Adobe PS.

Seems that its on curves only because of the raggedness of the edges. Is there a program that works great with this problem, because PS seems to bleed out numerous semi-transparent pixels around any curve.

I cant even make a CIRCLE that is pinkless on export. If anyone has any docs or advice on getting the pink out, I would be very appreciative.

Would making the canvas say... 1600x1600 then adjusting via width and height in LS to say, 16x16 .... Would that help Any?

Thank Ya

forget about PhotoShop, use MSPaint instead :) It is really cool I think

Never thought of going way back. Just seems odd to take such a step back in technology and power to get something better. Regardless, thanks for the idea, and will give it a go. One down thing is the lack of gradients :(

. o O ( MSPaint Exports to PNG ?)

this is a long time problem with Photoshop and there is a fix for it. Basically you need to turn off anti-alias support for the app. Photoshop tries to be smart and perform a gradient from point a to point b so it looks neater...however it makes LS see that it isn't really magic pink so it shows it.

You have to disable anti-aliasing for the tools during the actual drawing process when drawing near (bordering against) magic pink; you can't do this during saving.

Another thing you can do is to use a different background color, flatten the image, then select all pixels of that color with 0% tolerance and fill with FF00FF. You'll get the same jaggies, but you get to control them.

Or, create the image with no background color (ie, leave that part transparent) and save as png. If you use a module that supports per-pixel alpha, it'll be transparent without jaggies. (but only on Win2k and above)

Supersampling doesn't help, as the pixel with either be transparent or not with magic pink transparency. Magic pink pretty much guarantees jaggies against unknown backgrounds unless all your edges are straight and at right angles.

Do you think that if I do as mentioned before and make an image 1600x1600 that will be used for a 16x16 image, Do you think that would help out any with the edge? On the thought that the larger it starts.. the smaller the edge will be once I adjust the Height and Width and therefore less noticeable?

still going to be a one pixel ring as before...

Ahhhh..... Such is life. Thank you everyone for the input. Off to sulk and make some nice straight-edged boxes...

1600x1600 -> 16x16 is what I meant by "supersampling." Sorry to be unclear. :P