[thelist] Screen Captures again

[Derry Talvainn]

Thanks for all suggestions:

Could someone please point me to a site where there are some 'successful'
screen captures so I can gauge whether I am just being too fussy here or
whether I am not doing this correctly?

sasha - the screen resolution I took the captures is 800 x 600 - so using a
higher screen resolution is not the problem

Hugh - Downloaded hypersnap - it is a great little utility - but it doesn't
do any better with the quality of the image when scaled

Hassan - No point zooming in as I want Full Screen

Janet - Printkey - couldn't get it to install

Ken - tried 640 x 480 with no better results - was using 800 x 600

Pat - was resampling - so this is not the problem

Christian - I tried 'Snag It' but it isn't the quality I was looking for
either - also tried using 50%, 75% and 25% but didn't think that was an
improvement on the quality in fact it was worse - what am I doing wrong?

Aardvark - Downloaded a utility called 'Screen Ruler' but I am not sure
exactly how you mean me to use it nor how to use the javascript. I am
viewing my files at 100% in Photoshop. To capture a 800 x 800 file using
altprintscreen I would have to increase my screen resolution to above 1024 x
768 to get the length - did you mean me to do this?

I wanted full web pages scaled from 800 pixels to 600 pixels in width
(cropping to reduce the page further) - the height varies depending on the
page content.






Derry Talvainn
Artema Interactive Design

He who says it cannot be done should not interrupt someone doing it.
(Chinese Proverb)




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Subject: Re: [thelist] Screen Captures


> From: "Derry Talvainn" <derry at artema.com.au>
[...]
> Anyone know of a way to reduce the size of a screen capture without
> making the text look bad?

the text will be resampled, no matter what you do... part of the bicubic
interpolation method requires that pixels get averaged as you downsample, so
letters won't map to individual pixels anymore... they will instead 'smear'
across multiple pixels...

you could use nearest neighbor, for example, instead of bicubic, but that
won't
help you...

instead, determine your final desired size...  let's say you need a screen
capture to display at 200x200 pixels...  you want to (ideally) reduce an
image
size to 25% of its original size to maintain the most clarity (4 pixels get
crammed into one -- square to smaller square), and failing that, by 50% if
possible (2 pixels get crammed into one, but it's a rectangle getting
stuffed
into a square, so it's not as good)... other percentages require even more
odd
shape cramming, resulting in less ideal images...

so get your browser window to 800x800, do the cap, and resample to
200x200 (or 25%) from there...

you may want to run an unsharp mask filter on it to clean up the edges of
some things, but that might not be necessary...

> My first attempt at screen capturing was to use Print Screen and paste
> into Photoshop - but that was awful even at 100%. Then I found the
> CorelCapture utility which does a great job at 100% but that is all. I
> have tried reducing the size in Photoshop, Photopaint and also with
> CorelCapture all to no avail.
[...]

i use alt+PrtScrn to get the current window, and it's worked wonderfully for
me
for a long time...  make sure that in Photoshop you're viewing the image as
pixels at actual size (100%), so every pixel in the image is mapped to a
screen pixel...

there's no need to get a utility for what you want to do, you can do it all
with
alt+PrtScrn (you're on windows) and Photoshop... a little advance planning
and window sizing will take care of the rest...

and if you need to get your window to the right size and don't feel like
downloading Screen Ruler:

javascript:resizeTo(800,800);

where the 800,800 is your 800x800 window size (or whatever number you
want)...

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