Re: Re-sizing Bitmaps

Subject: Re: Re-sizing Bitmaps
From: Christine -dot- Anameier -at- seagate -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 10:15:43 -0500


Michelle Deeprose asked: "Has anyone got any ideas as to how I can make
bitmaps smaller without losing the clarity of the screen dumps?"

That's hard to do. When you resize a screen capture, it will never retain
the clarity of the original image. It sounds like you may be working with
full-screen images; have you considered cropping them? I rarely use a full
screen capture in my docs, except occasionally to provide context for the
other partial screen captures. More often I'll grab a menu with a small
amount of the surrounding screen real estate, or a dialog box, or a section
of a form, usually with the mouse pointer visible to pinpoint what I'm
trying to illustrate. That way I can keep the images at their original size
and still have them fit comfortably on the page. (And I save them as GIFs
to reduce file size.)

HTH,
Christine



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