Text Question.

I have two text related issues...one's a problem, the other is a question. I've checked the memories and I couldn't find anything that helped.

I'm using PSP9.

Generally, when I'm making an icon, I want crisp, yet small text. However, every time I try to type something in PSP, the text appears blurry making it very hard to read. (This doesn't only happen when the text is small, even at size 12 the text is pretty hard to read). If anyone could help me out with this, I'd really appreciate it. (Examples & screen-shot of settings behind the cut).




^ The text seems to be warped slightly - and in the larger sizes you can notice a slightly weird blur to the text.

My settings:




I was also wondering if it's possible to get this kind of "wavy" text in PSP, I know that there is a warp-text tool in PS, but is there an equivalent or a way to do this at all in PSP? (icons by starshine_icons and earthlyillusion):

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Thanks!