Does anyone know how to get better quality screen shots?

NutterzUK

NutterzUK

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Hi,

My job is QA for a company, and i'm having an issue with screen shots. Often I have an application or website, or e-mail open.. which I need to screen shot certain parts of. When I use windows snip tool > save as .PNG, or the screen shot button > paste into paint, the quality always suffers and the fonts look blurry.

Is there any application which I can get for free / cheap that will allow me better quality screen shots? Or a way to change some windows files to make the snip tool better quality?

Thanks!!
 
you can use the print screen button (on keyboard) and paste it into any graphics application.

alt+print screen button will only take a screenshot of the active window.

usually ill paste in to paint then save as jpg. but you can paste in to outlook or word.
 
Im not sure on this as im not at a pc right now, but are there any options in paint to adjust the quality of the image? 8/16/32 bit is often a cause but there might be some other settings.

Print screen should give a perfect image of whatevers on the screen so there is something wrong (but i cant diagnose it, sorry!)
 
Confirmed the snipping tool is a bit crap

just tried it in paint.. and it gives perfect results

didnt see any resolution / quality settings though.
 
A print screen is completely uncompressed and lossless. If you paste it into a program and save it as a lossless format (PNG), it will look exactly the same as the original.
 
asim18 said:
A print screen is completely uncompressed and lossless. If you paste it into a program and save it as a lossless format (PNG), it will look exactly the same as the original.
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Perfect. Thanks, I can see an improvement in picture quality.

All I need now is a quick way to do it myself...
So, i'm sure there are hundreds of applications which will let me do something on key shortcuts ( yes,..this may sound lazy, but I take a LOT of screen shots. )

I'd like to be able to capture a window, so it wants to be ALT+Screen print, followed by open MS paint, paste, save as, and allow me to then select a name.

I'm going to have a look see what I can do.

Thanks for your help!
 
If you've got a keyboard with programable buttons you could just save all that as a keystroke macro

I used to have the same type of thing on my old G15 as it was a US layout (good ol' ebay!) and had no \ key so I set up a macro on one of the G keys to pretty CTRL+2 (setting I made in the languages box to swap to USA layout) then press the button that was associated with the \ in that layout, then CTRL+1 to swap back to UK keys...
 
Yeah, I think I can find some software for that hopefully. I have the eclipse saitek II, I love this keyboard and think i'll stick with it and find a program, unless there is something really amazing out which isn't too rediculously expensive! I often keep my keyboards for years, they never break, and i'm really picky with them as I spend almost all my time typing!
 
why are you pasting the snip tool into paint anyway?

If you are using windows 7, I assume you are with snip tool, click start, then type PSR and run it psr.exe :)
 
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