[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Tom, > Thank you for the advice. > I have never worked with png files. I understand that they are like a "super > GIF", similar format, more colors. Do you know if pngs are bitmaps? I would > like a format that scales well. All screenshot formats will be bitmaps, because they are in essence capturing a bitmap. Vector graphics are the ones that scale well, but screen shots are not vector graphics.
PNG format is 24-bit color. Its ability to have transparent pixels (like GIFs can) is the only thing that would make it superior to TIFF format for capturing screen shots. But would a screen shot have any transparent pixels? Besides, aren't you limited to whatever format your screen shot software is going to capture in? You can convert to any file format after that, but it's pretty much irrelevant because no format is going to increase the quality of your image once it's captured. > So far, for everyone following this thread, the most important thing I've > learned is: keep the images full sized, if possible. Reducing the screenshots to > 75% caused more problems than using any of the formats I've tried. You end up with a certain number of pixels. How you deal with them is just like dealing with any other graphic; you can make it smaller (in inches) and increase the resolution for printing; you can't make it bigger, for either print or on-screen display, without losing quality and ending up with a pixelated image. - marty -- Marty Billingsley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
