Screenshots to 300 dpi resolution

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Jul 28, 2003
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I know it’s been answered many times, but how to I get my 72dpiscreenshots resized to 300 dpi and keep the clarity?&nbsp; </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Resample on or off?&nbsp; Resize to the correct size, then change the resolution?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I just can’t remember…</FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
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Phosphor
Jul 28, 2003
From Scott Kelby’s "Down and Dirty Tricks for Photoshop 6":

"Screen captures are low resolution by default, but you see us using them here in this book, and you’ve seen them in magazines, books, software packaging, and a host of other places in print. So what’s the trick of getting enough resolution to go to press at 200–line screen? It’s simple—make the screen captures much smaller when you import them into your page layout application (at least 50% smaller). That’s the whole trick—shrink ’em. NOT in Photoshop, in your page layout application (if you try to shrink them in Photoshop, believe it or not, they’ll get fuzzy. Even if you reduce them just 5%, instant fuzz. You HAVE to do it in your page layout application).

There’s a color separation secret, too. Before you convert to CMYK, set your Black Generation to Maximum (in your custom CMYK preferences) to force the black type to appear only on the black plate. It works wonders."
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grafical
Jul 28, 2003
many, many thanks – I’ve even got that book on my bookcase somewhere..

From Scott Kelby’s "Down and Dirty Tricks for Photoshop 6":
"Screen captures are low resolution by default, but you see us using
them
here in this book, and you’ve seen them in magazines, books,
software
packaging, and a host of other places in print. So what’s the trick
of
getting enough resolution to go to press at 200-line screen? It’s
simple-make
the screen captures much smaller when you import them into your page
layout
application (at least 50% smaller). That’s the whole trick-shrink
’em.
NOT in Photoshop, in your page layout application (if you try to
shrink
them in Photoshop, believe it or not, they’ll get fuzzy. Even if you
reduce
them just 5%, instant fuzz. You HAVE to do it in your page layout
application).
There’s a color separation secret, too. Before you convert to CMYK,
set
your Black Generation to Maximum (in your custom CMYK preferences)
to
force the black type to appear only on the black plate. It works
wonders."
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LenHewitt
Jul 29, 2003
……And switch off HTML for Newsgroups in OE! Only send text from Newsreaders…
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Phosphor
Jul 29, 2003
I’ve heard a number of times, NEVER to manipulate images in a page layout program. I’ve never done it, so I don’t how true it is or what the out come might be.

Does that work with grayscale/RGB images as well?
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marianmartin
Jul 29, 2003
Corel draw has a really useful programme called corel capture, if you are doing a lot of screenshots and they have to be big it might be useful, you can control the size and dpi of the screen, copying the file to the clipboard which you can copy and paste into photoshop.
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Madsen
Aug 2, 2003
Phosphor wrote:

From Scott Kelby’s "Down and Dirty Tricks for Photoshop 6":
NOT in Photoshop, in your page layout application (if you try to shrink them in Photoshop, believe it or not, they’ll get fuzzy.

If you resample them in Photoshop then yes. If you turn ‘Resample Image’ off and change the print size (or the resolution) then no.

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Regards
Madsen.

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