Hull text help needed

[ghoyle1]

I'm trying to put some text on the hull of a starship, and it's coming out very blurry. I'm using PSP 7 for this purpose, but I also have The Gimp (an open source Photoshop substitute). Does anybody have any suggestions on how to make clear, sharp text for my starship textures?

[evil_genius_180]

Make sure PS or Gimp has Anti-aliasing turned on for the text. Also, if you're saving as a .jpg, make sure you're saving at 100% quality. If it's still blurry, change your format to a .tga or .bmp. Also, your 3D program might render it like that using only adaptive or no Anti-aliasing, so try rendering it with maximum AA and see if it's still blurry.