RE: Screen Capture Question

["Brierley, Sean" <Sean -at- Quodata -dot- Com>]

Hallo:

The reason you get a "too many colors" error when saving as GIF is that GIF
only supports 256 colors (just as BMP only supports RGB, etc.). If your
desktop is set to 16-, 24-, 30- or other color depth, you need to resample
the image before saving as GIF. Software like SnagIT and presumably FullShot
(it's been a while, so I don't recall) should let you resample your color
depth at the time of capture. In short, the color thing is a limitation of
the graphics format, not your capture software. (Also, if you are not
optimizing your color, I suspect you are not optimizing your resolution and
it might be that you can slim-down your image sizes considerably.)

And, I use SnagIT32 (registered version not the perpetual trial) . . . and
am very happy with the purchase. I recommend if you need a tool for
business, you purchase the tool (it's a golden rule thing for me, I write
about software after all ;?).

Best regards,

Sean
sean -at- quodata -dot- com

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Skilton Katherine (ism1kns) [SMTP:KSkilton -at- ismd -dot- ups -dot- com]

	I use FullShot. I think it does a decent job, once you turn off all
the dumb
	default stuff that shows up on your title bars. Well, I find it
annoying,
	but others might not. I think FullShot does a decent job though. The
only
	trouble I've run into is saving images with many colors as .gifs.
FullShot
	tells you there are too many colors, etc. So, I end up saving as a
.png. 

	Kate Skilton
	United Parcel Service

	-----Original Message-----
	From: Dannette Thompson [mailto:dthomps -at- foundationsoft -dot- com]

	Currently, however, I'm using a shareware screen capture tool called
SnagIt,
	which you can download from www.techsmith.com. I think it does a
pretty good
	job, and has a few handy features, such as being able to capture a
scrolling
	region and being able to send captures straight to the printer.