[thelist] Screen Captures again

Joseph A Borg jacborg at mac.com
Mon Apr 15 02:41:01 CDT 2002


Photoshop is very good, if you have that you do not need anything
else... except maybe Graphic Converter (but that's for Macs ;-)

*There are two ways of reducing an image:*
   1  scaling the physical size only ( the pixel data remains the same)
   2  reducing the resolution ( pixel interpolation needed )

If you're printing_the_stuff_on_paper, current printer output
discriminates pixels at 200dpi+ you can change a picture's resolution
from 72 dpi to 200dpi that's a factor of 3 so the text is still readable
but very small. (the useful pixels are still there)

if on the other hand_you_need_the_pictures_for_a_screen_presentation,
then, you have to see the smallest needed image data and cater for that.
*Example* if you have 8 pixel text,there's nothing you can do as
reducing the pixel width of an image from 800 to, say 400 pixels would
reduce that text to a grey line 4 pixels high. If the text is larger
then you can get away with it.

On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 05:32 AM, Derry Talvainn wrote:

> 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?
>
Joseph A Borg
Salam, Triq Ta' Brija,
Siggiewi QRM 16
Malta




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