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Subject:Re: Improving quality of screen shots From:Brian Martin <martin -at- SODALIA -dot- IT> Date:Tue, 2 Dec 1997 09:16:24 +0100
Hi Doug:
I suggest you play with your screen colors. Grey-scale is usually an
approximation of the tone of the color you see on screen. Thus, if you
have more contrast on screen, your grey-scale will probably have more
contrast. Whether you can apply contrast to the windows you are working
on depends on the development package. What I mean is that some
portions of the screen may have fixed colors that you may not be able to
change with your Windows screen-color options.
>Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can improve the quality of
>screen shots in a hardcopy user's guide? I'm using Adobe Photoshop for
>Windows NT, and the screen shots I'm working with are grayscale and
>imported into FrameMaker at 300dpi. There's a lot of information on the
>screen, so making it easily readable when it's printed out is proving to be
>somewhat difficult. I would appreciate any suggestions.
