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Anti-Aliasing and Font Smoothing

Anti-aliasing or "font smoothing" is a process to make your images look smooth and your text more readable online.
Basics of Anti-aliasing
You might not know what that check box in Photoshop does, but it can have very strong consequences for a Web site depending upon what you decide to do with it.
Antialiasing, Transparency, and the World Wide Web
This tutorial covers both anti-aliasing and transparency. These are important in combination, because if anti-aliased poorly, transparent images will appear to have a halo.

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