[clue-tech] screen shots

[blackcat]

make the screen shot on your computer screen as large as possible.
Capture it and print it at higher resolution.
If a 92 dpi screen shot is 10 by 10 inches
( how quaint... it should be 254 mm by 254 mm at 3.6 dpmm )
and then printed at 300 dpi, the image will shrink to approximately
31% of original ( 92/300 )


On 2006-Jan 24, at 4:56 PM, Jeff Cann wrote:

I'm looking for gimp advice.

I would like to use clear screen shots in printed materials.  The  
issues that
I haven't figured out are:

1.  How can I take a screen shot at a higher resolution?  For  
example, if my
screen is 92 DPI and I want to print at 300 DPI, how can I grab a screen
shot?

[Note:  I don't think this is physically possible because going to a  
higher
resolution means interpolation, which means loss of clarity.  An  
image may
look OK on a screen at 92 DPI, but looks not so good printed at 300 DPI.

2.  If I take a screen shot and then scale it to a smaller size, how  
can I
keep it clear?  It seems that when I scale it, the *entire* resulting  
screen
shot is blurry.  I understand that things like text may blur, but  
I've seen
other brochures that appear to show screen shots.   The only thought  
I have
is that perhaps these 'screen shots' were actually created in an image
editing program and drawn to look like a screen shot.  This seems  
incredibly
stupid to me [since my background is programming], but I can see where a
marketing person [who wants everything to look crisp] would use this
technique.

I would love to hear comments / suggestions.

Thanks,
Jeff

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