Creating screen shot images

[chelvis]

I have a website which opens a popup window. The popup window opens 700 width by 450 height. The poppup window have a few screenshots of a webpage as .gif format. My problem is when I got the screen shot into photoshop, they were 1024pixels wide. So I went to Image > resize and reduced the size to 500 pixel (so it will fit in my popup window nicely without scrolling). But once I reduce the size, the image become blurry. But the people for whom I did are asking me to create the image without it becoming blury. What should I do?

[whackaxe]

blurry :s thats not right! but anyways you could open the page in fullscreen mode and close it after a timeout of with a link at the bottom of the page

[webmarkart]

there is no reason for it to beome blurry from reducing the size, its when you try to make it larger that it becomes pixelated. Just curious, when you changed the size to 500 pixels did you have "Constrain Proportions" checked?

Maybe it would help if you posted a link to the screenshots or the screenshots themselves...

[Ökii]

why use .gif?

The graphics interchange format is restricted to 256 colours which pretty much automatically makes it look like an M$paint image. Surely either .jpg or .png would do better, even with compression.

[x_goose_x]

With screenshots of basic windows gif is always best. JPEG's get that nasty fuzzy look from the compression. When there aren't many colors, I always suggest using GIF.

[webmarkart]

It shouldn't matter if you use gif or jpg as long as its done right. Both file types have advantages and disadvantages.

[Tonz]

I think webmarkart hit the nail on the head re "Constrain Proportions".

Must say this is a new one?!?!

Try this..

Open the file in the gif format.

Go ..

Image/mode - select "RGB color"

Then resize the image and export as gif or optimise as jpg.

What version of Photoshop are you using???


Tonz:cool: