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OK, my turn for help now.
I've already posted about this particular task somewhere in this thread but just so you don't have to scroll about, the situation is this:
I'm trying to make a particularly elaborate birthday card for someone. It involves a leather envelope (which I've now made and am happy with) and on this, tan coloured, envelope I was going to use decoupage to fix/print on images of tiny animals and monogrammed initials in the style of the luggage featured in Darjeeling Limited by Marc Jacobs/Louis Vuitton featuring illustrations by Wes Anderson's brother, Eric Chase Anderson. (Who looks a bit like Ron Howard).
I'm shit at drawing/painting but can just about bullshit my way through Photoshop.
I took the highest resolution and clearest image of a piece of the luggage I could find, this one:
And cut around, not hugely accurately, the best example of each animal. I saved them as transparent GIFs. They're tiny, but that's fine - I thought.
The final envelope is about 26cm by 19cm.
The animals, indiviually are less than 100px square - averaging around 70x40.
Now just as a test while I was working today I printed out a sheet with them all arranged nicely on it (using a colour laser printer at work). But the very edges of the image look rough and pixellated. Is there a setting in Photoshop or on a printer I can use to smooth edges? Should I just zoom in and use the paintbrush tool to tidy them up? Have I done a really shitty job cutting them out?
Given the size of the final product I think the size of the animals is fine - but they still have rough edges I'd like tidied.
Hit a brother up.