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Subject:Re: Screen Captures in HTML From:Bob Morse <morse -at- GLOBALDIALOG -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 4 Jul 1996 00:34:05 -0700
Shannon Kelly wrote:
> I am using Paint Shop Pro on a Windows PC to capture bit-mapped screen
> images for use in HTML files. However, when I resize the images and save them
> as GIF files, the quality deterioates, i.e., they becomes unreadable.
I've had some (but not much) success with this method:
Copy the original capture to the clipboard, paste it into a vector graphics
program (Corel, Designer, etc.), scale it down there by the selected-object
handles, and then export it (at screen resolution) to a bit-mapped format.
Then open the image in PSP, clean it up wherever necessary, and save it as
a GIF.
Don't know whether this next idea will work (haven't tried it myself, but
seems worth a try in theory), but you might also try (within PSP) expanding
the resized image's color depth to 16 million colors, and then applying some
combination of the Sharpen and/or Enhance Detail filters. Then strip the
colors back down to 256 or 16, and save as a GIF.
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