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RE: Is Photoshop a good tool for screenshots?(long)
Subject:RE: Is Photoshop a good tool for screenshots?(long) From:"David Knopf" <david -at- knopf -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 6 May 2002 07:43:52 -0700
CHRISTINE ANAMEIER wrote:
| > . . . there's no difference between JPG and GIF when
| > talking screen shots going to print. Both are
| > bitmapped images.
|
| In my experience, there's a significant difference between JPG and
GIF: the
| compression method used in JPG is good for photographs and terrible
for
| screen captures (or indeed anything with text).
This is an oft repeated MYTH. Compression is optional with the JPEG
format. Yes, if you generate highly compressed JPEGs, things like text
and screen captures will not look good. However, if you generate JPEGs
without compression, screen captures, text, and other similar elements
will look excellent.
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