Re: Re: Graphics Resolution Confusion Once Again

[Jan Cohen <najnehoc -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Hi Nancy,

Here's something you can try if you have access to a good image manipulation app 
(e.g., Photoshop), and you've got room to play with the width of the image:
	1. Open the bmp in that application.
	2. Knock one pixel off of the left or right edge of the image. You can do this 
in Photoshop via Image > Canvas Size. 

	3. Resize the image 50%. That will leave you with an image 570 pixels wide. If 
you need an image smaller than that (which you may; for instance, an image 5.5 
inches wide):

During Step 2, downsize the width of your canvas to 1056 pixels. You can do this 
if you've got enough white space on either or both sides of the image to work 
with. After you resize the image 50% (Step 3), that will leave an image 538 
pixels wide, or 5.5 x 96. 


	4. If you're using Photoshop, apply Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp Mask. The 
default settings usually work fine.
	5. Save the image in your preferred format. I use .png.
	6. Import your image into your document (at 96dpi, or some multiple of that).
It's usually best to prep your images before they get into your doc dev app, 
*especially* if your images contain text (as they often do in screen shots). 
Doing so avoids having to deal with the algorithms in such apps, leaving proper 
image manipulation to apps designed specifically for such purposes.   
 
Following the above methods, I have never ended up with anything less than a 
perfect screen shot in my documentation. 




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From: Nancy Allison <maker -at- verizon -dot- net>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Sent: Tue, February 8, 2011 3:18:39 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Graphics Resolution Confusion Once Again

Oh, yeah -- sorry! It is a .bmp file.


Feb 8, 2011 03:10:31 PM, salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com wrote:

What file format are using? That is, what is the file extension of the
graphic file?

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