Print-Screen oddness... Why the huge file size?

NeilF · 15 Sep 2008 at 16:44

I've noticed when some work colleagues send an email with a print-screen image in them, they're huge.

For example a work colleague sent me print-screen of his desktop and it was over 700K.

I did the same with a larger desktop (I have dual screens, he has just one) and it's under 300K.

What on earth is making his screen capture/image size so much larger?

bledd · 15 Sep 2008 at 16:44

what format are they saved as, probably saving as .bmp
png or jpg are better

NeilF · 15 Sep 2008 at 16:46

bledd. said:
what format are they saved as, probably saving as .bmp
png or jpg are better

This is it, they're just pasted straight into emails (Outlook)...

So 'Print-Scrn' and then CTRL-V into an email. Mine are a fraction the size of his, although the images are far larger!

bledd · 15 Sep 2008 at 16:54

print screen into word doc into outlook, for the lose!

NeilF · 15 Sep 2008 at 16:58

bledd. said:
print screen into word doc into outlook, for the lose!

? Sorry ?

The issue is different people both doing a Print-Screen, both pasting that image straight into an Outlook email (Ctrl-V), and them being utterly different sizes...

Almost like one of use is compressing it, and the other isn't?