Fonts get funky in front page

[kingslightproductions]

I created some new buttons in photoshop. Made them oversized as recomended. I'm using palalino linotype as the font. When my buttons are normal as a JPEG then they look great but they will have a black square around them. So when I use them over a graphoc I make them trasparent and this removes the black sqaure but the font gets pixilated and rough. Any ideas on how to cure this???????

[[Director] Joseph B]

I'm thinking that there is some black in the font color that's getting made transparent also. Maybe try doing a color fill on the black and then make the new color transparent.

[jorad]

Why do you need them oversized? Just make them the correct size and export as a .gif (good) or .png (better) the first time around. Your font problems should dissappear

even better, add the text after you resize the buttons to the correct size.

[kingslightproductions]

Well for the size. some tutorial I read said to make the buttons about 4 times bigger than needed. The buttons look great. the PNG looks great. The Gif looks like crap. In front page you have a choice of JPEG (PNG file is used) or a gif that gives you the transparent backing. I can change the backing but it doesn't change the font. Right now I'm just not using italic on the buttons that I want to float over graphics. I'll try making them smaller and see what happens.