Re: [Gimp-user] Crisper screen shots

2005-03-03 Thread squareyes
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 13:14 +, Donncha O Caoimh wrote: > I'm guessing that you're resizing your screenshots. Otherwise they'd be > as crisp as you see them on-screen. > If you must resize, use the Unsharp tool to sharpen them again. It works > quite well on textual/cartoony graphics and can b

Re: [Gimp-user] Crisper screen shots

2005-03-02 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, "Kalle Ounapuu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So maybe it's the compression you're choosing for the PNG? All your > PNG's are RGB... so that has lossy compression. Are you putting it > down a little bit? PNG doesn't do lossy compression. Whatever compression factory you choose, it's lossless

RE: [Gimp-user] Crisper screen shots

2005-03-02 Thread Kalle Ounapuu
0:41 AM To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: RE: [Gimp-user] Crisper screen shots Quoting Kalle Ounapuu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > So maybe it's the compression you're choosing for the PNG? All your > PNG's are RGB... so that has lossy compression. Are you putting

RE: [Gimp-user] Crisper screen shots

2005-03-02 Thread Jeffrey McBeth
Quoting Kalle Ounapuu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: So maybe it's the compression you're choosing for the PNG? All your PNG's are RGB... so that has lossy compression. Are you putting it down a little bit? Err, there isn't any compression in PNG that is lossy. At all. PNG is lossless in all modes. So

RE: [Gimp-user] Crisper screen shots

2005-03-02 Thread Kalle Ounapuu
I can see that fuzzyness you're talking about, and it seems strange that a direct screenshot would result in that... so it may have to do with your export. I looked at one of your PNG screenshots... opening it in Photoshop I was presented with a prompt about Pixel Aspect Ratio. The PNG's you've

Re: [Gimp-user] Crisper screen shots

2005-03-02 Thread Donncha O Caoimh
I'm guessing that you're resizing your screenshots. Otherwise they'd be as crisp as you see them on-screen. If you must resize, use the Unsharp tool to sharpen them again. It works quite well on textual/cartoony graphics and can be found at Filters->Enhance->Unsharp Mask. Donncha. squareyes wro

Re: [Gimp-user] Crisper screen shots

2005-03-02 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, squareyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > am making up a newbies help file for Ubuntu, > but am not completely happy with the crispness of the screen shots > I have taken with "gimp". Screenshots show exactly what's on screen. If that's not crispy enough, I suggest you tweak your text renderin