December 29, 200322 yr I have some screen shots that I took with FSSCREEN that I want to upload. I read that i need to have them 800x600. I did that, but the jpeg is way over 125mb (900). How do I make it smaller so I can upload?Brad Zimmer
December 29, 200322 yr Do you have Photoshop or a similar program? I use Photoshop and the 'Save for Web' option where the image is reduced in quality enough to come below the required size of 125kb and still look good.
December 29, 200322 yr Personally, I just use Alt+Print Screen to get a screen shot in the Clipboard. Then I open Paint, paste, resize and save as JPG. No problem.You could try opening your screen shot in Paint, then let Paint re-save it as a jpg. Maybe it will do a better compression for you.
December 29, 200322 yr http://www.irfanview.com/ is an excellent and simple utility for resizing screen shots down for posting purposes. Takes about 3 keystrokes to reduce your screen shot down to a nice modem friendly 800x600 jpeg. You can also crop the shot down for just the area you want to show (great for tutorial type stuff).short tutorial:Hit Print Scrn key in FS.Alt-Tab to desktop.Start IRFANVIEW.Hit Ctrl-V to paste your screen shot.Hit Ctrl-R to resize. Pick 800x600.Hit S to save as ... Set type to JPEG. Quality will default to 80%.Post your pic. You can play with the quality value if 80% is not crisp enough for you. Higher % = better image quality (trade off for larger file size).You'll find a 1600x1200 screen shot goes from 5.49MB to 44.8KB.Ray
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