Comments on: Software You Should Be Using

By: SYL

SYL — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:48:55 +0000

I am new with all of this design programs… one simple question. Why is it that when I receive a .jpg file I can view it alright with preview but when I try to forward it or save and email later I loose all the quality and becomes unreadable?

By: Grace

Grace — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:18:28 +0000

I have a question:
Why is it that when i save a GIF file to the desktop, i’ll always view it as a ‘still image’ (using PREVIEW) instead of the original animated image that i had intended to save?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:46:32 +0000

what blog software are we using?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:44:41 +0000

I want to see how blogs work

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Thu, 08 Sep 2005 11:19:09 +0000

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By: Shawn

Shawn — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:32:28 +0000

Even though you have admitted that defeat on the part of the JPEG issue, I still feel obligated to link you to this image format guide. There is rhyme and reason to why PNG is used for screenshots.

By: Wevah

Wevah — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 16:04:08 +0000

Photoshop’s PNG export isn’t great, either; running it through pngcrush afterwords tends to work wonders.

(Thanks for the linkage, BTW!)

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:00:06 +0000

Confronted with the vast amount of information you have all provided, I must accept that I was wrong in my assertion that JPEG is a better format for screenshots.

By: Wordman

Wordman — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:56:44 +0000

JPG for screen shots a horrible choice, not because it is lossy (which it is), but because the way the math in jpeg works means that it is extremely bad at handling large blocks of pixels with identical color values. Things like, oh, windows, title bars, etc.

Jpeg is meant to handle photographs (particularly the edges of objects in photographs) and when confronted with large monchrome blocks, adds huge amounts of noise to them. PNG, in contrast, is particularly good at handling large monochrome blocks.

By: gc2

gc2 — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:57:05 +0000

John – Let’s not forget its and it’s.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:00:30 +0000

Because Photoshop has a save-for-web option which reduces file size while hardly reducing quality.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:39:32 +0000

Why would you use Photoshop to convert a PNG file when you have Preview? Photoshop is great for heavy lifting but for simple file conversion Preview is just fine.

By: josh

josh — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:35:56 +0000

Hi everyone, I am trying to find something to grab the entire screen even if it isn’t in the window. I want to have a picture of one of my iMovies but if I fit it into the window it’s truncated and I can’t see the details needed. Anyone have any ideas or am I missing something that can be done with grab or snapz pro x? Thanks for any advice

Josh

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 17:37:39 +0000

Thanks for catching that John, I always get those two mixed up.

By: John

John — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 17:31:31 +0000

In your comments on coconut battery you misuse the word effected. It should be affected. I’m sure you were sleeping in 6th grade the day that this was covered. Feel free to delete this comment as long as you correct your copy. I keep telling my young nieces that if they master the usage of there, their, they’re, your you’re, and to too two that they will be ahead of 95% of the people on the web. I guess I should add affected/effected to that list. My apologies if you are a non-native English speaker.

By: Gareth Potter

Gareth Potter — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 11:37:26 +0000

For anyone curious, my Chinese isn’t great, but I think the page that made reference to this article is saying that you can also use Tinkertool to change the format, which is what the author currently uses.

For what it’s worth, I believe PNG makes most sense as the default format for screenshots – lossy JPEGs have their uses, of course, but once text is involved (which is surely a near certainty), a lossless format is generally going to be preferable.