05-29-2004, 04:37 AM
YZilla,May 28 2004, 09:53 PM Wrote:Did a quick google search and it seems that Photoshop, and I found out that I have to say through "Save for web..." to access the compression settings. It's now down to a more managable ~100kB.It still shows what looks like .jpg artificing. Take the screenshot again and redo the "save for web" procedure. I can guarantee that you will get a very sharp windows screenshot with a very small filesize utilizing .png.
Here's a screenshot I just took. It's only 28 kb, and looks perfect.
The procedure using Photoshop is a snap.
-Hit Print Screen (or Alt+Print Screen if you just want a shot of the current window)
-Open Photoshop
-File->New (the size will correctly default to whatever is in the clipboard)
-Edit->Paste
-File->Save for Web
-Select "PNG-8 128 Dithered" for a supersmall filesize at great quality
-PROFIT
DON'T resize the image within Photoshop before saving as .png. As long as you link to the image instead of displaying it in a post, you shouldn't need to.