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Sam CA Platinum Member
Joined: 02 May 2008 Posts: 3990 Location: Los Angeles
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Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 4:37 pm Post subject: A question about Computer desktop Screenshot quality |
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Hello Everybody,
OK, I know so little about digital photography and Pic editing in general. I'm trying to make some quality screenshots for my website. I'm using the latest version of "Snag It" to capture the screen. My question is, what settings contribute to getting a High resolution screen shot?
Here's an example of a pro tools session:
I'm not happy with the quality. I'm sure there's a way to do a better job. _________________ Sam
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X-Trade Moderator
Joined: 14 Feb 2006 Posts: 6494 Location: Leeds, UK
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Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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A true full-screen screenshot should be at exactly the same resolution & quality of your screen because it should take the image straight from the screen buffer.
From there:
-don't reduce the resolution unless you need to (i.e. 'scale' the image), only crop
-If your image doesn't include any detailed photography or other elements with many colours, use a PNG file format.
JPEG works by tessellating shapes, which works okay for busy photographs but you loose edge-definition. PNG is more like a bitmap (and I like it for other reasons like supporting alpha channel) but most importantly it uses a colour table, so the less colours used in your image the smaller the file size! most GUI graphics consist of a limited number of colours so this generally works okay for screenshots of program windows, etc. _________________ Current Gear: Kronos 61, RADIAS-R, Volca Bass, ESX-1, microKorg, MS2000B, R3, Kaossilator Pro +, MiniKP, AX3000B, nanoKontrol, nanoPad MK II,
Other Mfgrs: Moog Sub37, Roland Boutique JX03, Novation MiniNova, Akai APC40, MOTU MIDI TimePiece 2, ART Pro VLA, Focusrite Saffire Pro 40.
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cello Platinum Member
Joined: 11 Jun 2009 Posts: 2152 Location: Glasgow, UK
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Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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All sreen caps are at (roughly) 72dpi. You can increase the dpi in photoshop to say 150. But on a website (which is on screen so it's 72dpi) will not be able to display 150 dpi in better quality - it will just want to display at double the size...
PNG advice is good from X-Trade. _________________ Plugged in: Fantom 8, Jupiter-X, Jupiter 80, System-8, JD-XA, V-Synth GTv2, FA-06, SE-02, JU-06A, TR-09, VT-4, Go:Livecast, Rubix44, Shure SM7b, Push2, Ableton 11 Suite, Sibelius, KRK Rokit 5, |
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Sam CA Platinum Member
Joined: 02 May 2008 Posts: 3990 Location: Los Angeles
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Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks guys for the response,
I gotta think about what you said first, before i ask another question.
What do you think about the screenshot I made? What would you call the quality of the pic? A low res? Average? _________________ Sam
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Sharp Site Admin
Joined: 02 Jan 2002 Posts: 18197 Location: Ireland
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Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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My 2 cents, your using the wrong file format. JPG by design will try blend pixels together which in turn leaves you with an image that's not so sharp. Text can look very fuzzy.
Screen shots with text are normally best when saved as PNG files. This will produce razor sharp images, and there are still keep the files sizes down too by using pallet based options when saving the png.
Regards
Sharp. _________________
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Sam CA Platinum Member
Joined: 02 May 2008 Posts: 3990 Location: Los Angeles
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Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 4:12 am Post subject: |
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Ok, Thanks a lot. I'm definitely going to save the pic with .PNG format. I just didn't know what the .PNG format was. _________________ Sam
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