RE: screenshots - to crop or resize, that is the question...

Subject: RE: screenshots - to crop or resize, that is the question...
From: SIANNON -at- VISUS -dot- JNJ -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 12:58:0


Another point to make, building on the postings that have already come
forth, is the *purpose* of the screenshot in your text, as well as the
nature of the screens themselves.

For example, with a complex UI that changes sections of the screen display
based on input criteria (including the appearance/disappearance of several
screen controls), it can be helpful to have a (possibly shrunken)
"establishing shot" that shows the whole screen, labeling dynamic sections
with callouts, and then follow it with cropped shots of the specific
sections that change, at those points in the description that deal with
specific permutations. Legibility is not compromised in the "close-ups",
but their position in the grand scheme of things is not lost, either.

For oversized screenshots and their captions, I'd personally have to agree
that some form of left-hand alignment would probably be better than
centered, but consistency will make the biggest difference there.


Shauna Iannone
(currently wrestling with the same question in a design doc formatted
similarly to what you described, in which only *1* out of over a dozen
screenshots is necessarily oversized, and so the caption just looks funny
in either case -- if it is aligned with the pic or if it is aligned with
the text)


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