RE: Editing screenshots that use the Windows XP look

["Nuckols, Kenneth M" <Kenneth -dot- Nuckols -at- mybrighthouse -dot- com>]

SnagIt, from TechSmith:

Less than $100 per license if memory serves. 

http://www.techsmith.com/products/snagit/default.asp




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> Subject: Editing screenshots that use the Windows XP look
> 
> Hello,
> 
> My department is in the process of changing the
> screenshots in our printed documentation from the
> Windows Classic look to the Windows XP look. However,
> doing so produces screenshots with shading or
> gradients and pixelated text, numbers, and screen
> backgrounds. Because of the pixelation, it takes much
> more time to manually edit screenshots (for example,
> to mock up data, or add/remove features that aren't
> yet complete) than it did with Windows Classic.
> 
> The tools we have to work with are Paint Shop Pro
> [[version 7 and a trial version of Corel PSP (ver
> 10)]] and MS Paint, and none of them offers a
> straightforward way to quickly edit image files.
> Purchasing a more robust tool like Photoshop is
> prohibitively expensive because we have 18 writers in
> our department, and we all need access to our own copy
> of whatever graphics tool we're using. Is there any
> other reasonably-priced tool that lets you easily edit
> screenshots manually to address the issues described
> above? Also, I am curious how others who are using the
> Windows XP look in their printed documents are
> handling the gradients and increased file size needed
> to make the screenshots look OK.
> 
> If it matters -- I am using MS Word 2003 to create
> hardcopy docs and then converting to PDF. Also, if
> anyone knows of a list dedicated to working with
> graphics that would be more appropriate for my
> questions, please let me know. Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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