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Nicole
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Poor Screen Capture Quality - 8/14/2005 1:16:09
Hi everyone,
I'm looking at providing screenshots of my templates in a pop-up window on my website. By clicking on the image in the following link, you'll see an example.
Template
What I'm trying to do is simulate how a template would look in a 1024 x 768 browser window, regardless of the screen resolution that the viewer is using (800 x 600 or above). Therefore I've been reducing my screen resolution to 1024 x 768, taking a screenshot using Paint Shop Pro and then resizing that screenshot to 750px width so viewers that are using 800 x 600 screen resolution can still view the pop-up window.
I'm using Paint Shop Pro 8, and just can't seem to reproduce a clear enough image once the image has been resized. Does anyone else here who uses PSP 8 know how I can make these iimages of a decent quality?
Thanks,
Nicole
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Tailslide
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RE: Poor Screen Capture Quality - 8/14/2005 4:36:56
Hi Nicole
I don't use PSP but I had a bit of a play with this anyway! I found that I got a reasonably good quality image if I did a screenshot, cropped the screenshot to just either side of the central container and then saved it as a gif (it was approx 735 px wide). It came out at 107k but it looked much clearer.
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d a v e
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RE: Poor Screen Capture Quality - 8/14/2005 6:08:36
after resizing use the oddly named unsharp mask (that's what it's called in fireworks and photoshop) though sharpen will do pretty much the same thing if you can't find such a thing in PSP.
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RE: Poor Screen Capture Quality - 8/14/2005 9:47:27
that's a clever idea!
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caz
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RE: Poor Screen Capture Quality - 8/14/2005 13:37:37
I did something like that last year to keep decorative images from acting silly when the page/text was resized. I got the idea from another source, it was Papabaer I think. It does take some trial and error arriving at a useful em/px ratio but it is well worth it. I have used some simple classes to apply it where needed.
img.pt {
width: 7em;
height: 9.5em;}
img.lsp {
width: 8em;
height: 6em;}
This was something of an experiment, but you can see how it works squidgey images
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