Screen Shot

Print Screen

You know when you "Print Screen" the screen on your computer then paste it on paint, the quality of the image will decrease when you open the saved image file. How do I solve this problem?
I want the image to be in good quality.
Thank you. -hug

 

Since when does it "decrease" in quality...? I guess when you save it as a JPEG it does get compressed a bit, change the extension you're saving it as then perhaps?

 

I meant like this:

 

That's not a screenshot?? A screenshot would be a shot of whats on your screen at that moment...

SOunds like your copying and pasting individual images..?

 

Yup, PrntScr takes a snapshot of the whole screen. Unless of course, you cropped it..

 

Sorry, I mentioned Print Screen. I'll edit the title.

 

To solve save as png or bitmap, I'm guessing you saved as jpeg hence the drop in quality

jpeg is lossy by the way

 

Have you tried PrtScr the screen and paste it onto Fireworks or Photoshop? Paint somehow makes the image look choppy.

If you do use Paint, save it to .JPG It should be fine.

 

If you save it as png/bmp then it won't look choppy (MS Paint)

png > bmp becuz besides being lossless it has a wayyyy smaller size than bmp

 

Well when I use Fireworks, I save it as .PNG cause I could re-edit my layers xD

Didn't know saving it as PNG is better for quality too!

 

Lol, dirt you know.

It is about the amount of Pixels that make up an image.

 

hard to compare without seeing them next to each other, .PNG does look crisper.

 

mspaint ( winXP or older ) makes screen shot coppy, ( win7 ) makes it way better with crop tool =)