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Nicole
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Screenshots - 12/21/2004 20:19:58
I use screenshots to display samples of my work for my portfolio and when i'm asked to create some prototypes for clients. I'm using Paint Shop Pro 8 and am wondering if these screenshops are okay as they are (a little blurred) or should i be making them sharper? Is this easy to do in Paint Shop Pro?
Here is one page of samples as an example.
www.nixdesign.com.au/housingsamplepages.htm
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RE: Screenshots - 12/21/2004 22:07:15
You've taken the blurryness a bit far...
Try something like: http://ukposse.co.uk/misc/Image1.jpg
OK...so I cheated..I used PSP9 @ compression 20
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RE: Screenshots - 12/22/2004 7:56:07
Nicole: What I would suggest with these is to ignore the basic advice about how far to compress relative to optimizing for a normal web site - i would strive for as clear as possible and not worry about load times. just MHO
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RE: Screenshots - 12/22/2004 7:57:33
But Dan, to show you are a professional, you need to be able to produce graphiics, that are of high quailty, and small file size...
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RE: Screenshots - 12/22/2004 7:58:42
on my screen, your "full size" is just as blurry as hers
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RE: Screenshots - 12/22/2004 8:13:53
I'm using a TFT monitor, and it's fine, a clear, crisp image.
Ain't got it shrunk have you?
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RE: Screenshots - 12/22/2004 10:14:11
you might find for some of the sites that a gif (with some dithering) might be clearer for not so much more filesize.
i'm more with dpf on this one - the client wants to see an example in all it's glory - clicking on the thumbnail means they want to look and they could reasonably expect a wait while the pic downloads (of course what really sucks is that IE doesn't support progressive jpegs - not that i've noticed).
try the gif option - you might get away with it unless there are lots of gradients, otherwise go for a hogher qulaity jpeg and don't worry *so much* about the filesize
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RE: Screenshots - 12/22/2004 16:53:25
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until it resized to fit the window. you might consider using a simple javascript to open a non-resizable new window the exact size of your image. If you want, I can grab one for you.
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RE: Screenshots - 12/22/2004 17:10:01
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I'm not sure they'd appreciate new windows opening everywhere with each click, like most people i'm sure they'd be frustrated by that I can appreciate that! Whenever I do that, I put a button on each to "close this window"
<edit> and as an example, have you ever clicked on any of the ads on outfront? when you do, they do not open a new window - persoanlly I would prefer that they do but I know many dont agree. for me, surfing, a new window that I INITIATE isnt upsetting - its the "popups" I hate.
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RE: Screenshots - 12/22/2004 17:18:57
here is a little lesson in opening windows (and writing to them with javascript)
save this code as firstwin.html
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Page1</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<script type="text/javascript">
</script>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
<h1>First Window</ h1>
<h2> this is an example of opening a new window and writing the content - thus the window.open("" etc. If you
wanted to open it with an html page, simply put "mypage.html"<h2>
<form>
<input type="button" value="Open a New Window" onClick='javascript:newWin=window.open("","mywin","width=400
,height=500,location=1,status=1,resizable=1")
newWin.document.open();
newWin.document.write("<html>\n<head>\n<title>My JavaScript Test</title>\n</head>\n");
newWin.document.write("<body>\n\t<h1>Welcome to the child page</h1>");
newWin.document.write("\n<form>\n<input type=\"button\" name=\"closebutton\" value=\"Close This Window\"
onClick=\"self.close()\">\n</form>");
newWin.document.write("\n<form>\n<input type=\"button\" name=\"closebutton\" value=\"Change Parent Window\"
onClick=opener.document.location=\"page2.html\">\n</form>")';
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</form>
</BODY>
</HTML>
then save this as page2.html
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Page 2</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" >
<h1>Page 2</h2>
<form><input type="button" value="Change Parent" name="changeparent" onClick='javascript:window.open("firstwin.html","mywin");'>
</form>
</BODY>
</HTML>
then open first one in your prowser
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