300dpi screen shot

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  • ninjasavant0

    I have to take a lot of screen caps for technical documentation. The only way I've found to optimize the printed output of a screen capture is to take the screen cap into PS, open up the Image Size dialog, UNCHECK "Resample Image". Then change the print dimensions to the size you need to output and the resolution will change according to what it needs to be to print crisply at that size.

    Simply bumping it up to 300 dpi and resampling, even with nearest neighbor, will add a slight blur and anti-alias to it. If you want to keep your pixels crispy though, use the method I described.

    • < essentially this makes no change to the image at all (which is what you want)ribit

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