[Web4lib] screen capture help

[Andrew Mutch]

Alma,

If your cropped image looks OK in Photoshop, look at the web page code and see if the image size in Photoshop is the same as the image size specified in the web page. If it's not, you'll get a distortion in your image. 

For example, if your image in Photoshop is:

200 pixels in width and 200 pixels in height

In the web page, the code should look something like this:

<img src="yourimage.gif" height="200" width="200" alt="Screenshot">

However, if instead you saw:

<img src="yourimage.gif" height="400" width="400" alt="Screenshot">

The browser would try to stretch the image to twice its size to fit the specifications in the code. It sounds like it would be easier to adjust the size in the web page to match your image in Photoshop versus altering the size in Photoshop. I hope that helps. Good luck!

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI

----- Original Message -----
From: Alma Garcia <almag at mills.edu>
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Sent: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:04:58 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Web4lib] screen capture help

I have to update some webpages on our intranet that have screen captures.  These were done many years ago by a staff member who is no longer working here.  I am in unknown waters here.

I have access to Photoshop and am able to crop the screen capture to only the portion of the screen that I want.  The problem I am having is that when I put the image in the webpage the text is very distorted.  In order to see the text properly I would have to create a large file.  Is there a way to keep the image text readable while making the image itself smaller?   The pages are part of our local  intarnet or I would post a link.

Alma

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Alma García                     Library Systems Administrator
Mills College Library           510-430-2021
5000 MacArthur Blvd.            510-430-3155 fax
Oakland, CA  94613



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