Resizing MAP

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vivati
Apr 15, 2007
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Hello all,

I am currently using:
Photoshop CS2.

What I am trying to do is print screen a google/msn/yahoo map on my monitor screen resolution: 1680×1050 saving as png or jpg with snipping tool built into windows vista.

all the previously mentioned works fine however when I open the image with cs2 and resize to a 5.5(long) x 3.9(wide) picture the map looks ok – however the text (i.e. street names) are so fuzzy they are unreadable.

Is what I a trying to do not possible?
Is photoshop the program I need to be using?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Bernie
Apr 15, 2007
Where is the text fuzzy? On screen or once printed.

You are not resampling are you?
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vivati
Apr 15, 2007
nomad, thank you for the quick response.

the text is fuzzy on the screen and once printed.

What I do to re-size the image is

Image -> Resize -> Document size: Width 5.5 Height 3.9 (inches).

Resolution(200 px/inch)
Constrain proportions (not checked)
Resample Image (checked – Bicubic Sharper)

thanks.
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chrisjbirchall
Apr 15, 2007
Any resizing/resampling of a screen grab will result in poor resolution.
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Bernie
Apr 16, 2007
In other words, don’t resample, or if you have to for screen captures only use nearest neighbour and only resample at an even multiple of t he existing resolution.
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vivati
Apr 16, 2007
OK, thanks to everyone for the help.

I happen to find that out of google,msn,yahoo and esri; mapquest happen to have a map with bolder and slightly larger text. This cured it and the text looks fine.

btw… it seems like in my case bicubic sharper produced a nice image.

once again, thank you to everyone.

Tony
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LenHewitt
Apr 16, 2007
Tont,

Screenshots generally resize better using Nearest Neighbour interpolation.
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chrisjbirchall
Apr 16, 2007
Just as an aside – Think carefully before using these maps on a website. They are covered by copyright and you generally have to pay to use them in this way.

Creating a link, however, is generally free of charge.
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vivati
Apr 16, 2007
chrisJbirchall,

At the moment I am using the maps to print and give to people.

however when I do use maps for webdevelopment I (as you point out) 1) link or 2) created the code and use any licensing / keys that are necessary by the provider.

My main focus is the backend of a website however I do at times have to come up and do a few things with UI.

Regards.

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