Per default, the resizing mode that is used by Photoshop to make an image smaller is "bicubic (sharper)". You may never have paid much attention to the settings in that image size dialogue, but it holds some key elements to make sure your pattern comes out in the best way possible! Most images need to be resized to the pattern size, or you might have made a larger pattern and want that in smaller sizes. You could also paste the flattened copy into a new document, merge it down and export the dds file from there.
I like to create a copy of the entire document using the shortcuts ctrl+shift+alt+e to make sure it appears flattened without actually flattening everything. Using the bilinear mode when reducing an image's size helps, as does flattening the image before image reduction or file export. Idk, this might be "feature quirk" after all.Īnyway, to avoid the faint lines around your image, follow these tips: I still had this happen to me with the current 2023 Photoshop version when using bicubic (sharper) on an image with layers, but I do feel there are less problems with saving layered images now.
*clarification: It's not an official bug, but a lot of people get annoyed by it.
This was a regular occurring bug in older versions (before CC 2020 or so.) The issue was that when you scaled down or sometimes even just saved an image that was not just the background layer but had stuff on other layers, there would be a faint line around the whole image. Lines all around the edges of some channels could also be a Photoshop bug*. I do not have that anymore so I cannot say where exactly. The old DDS plugin used on older Photoshop versions also has that setting, it is just a bit more obscure. In the screenshot I posted at the beginning of the tutorial, you can see that I set it to "highest" instead of the usual default "fastest", though this is not really needed if you save uncompressed files.
If you want to continue to use compression, make sure to change the quality of the compression algorithm to get the best possible result. You could test it out for yourself and decide!
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