I can see that fuzzyness you're talking about, and it seems strange that a direct screenshot would result in that... so it may have to do with your export.
I looked at one of your PNG screenshots... opening it in Photoshop I was presented with a prompt about Pixel Aspect Ratio. The PNG's you've exported have the "PHYS" PNG chunk in them. This controls the the aspect ratio of the pixels of the image, believe it or not. I think it's supposed to give you control over how an image is viewed on different displays (crt, lcd, mobile phone, tv, etc). Maybe this is having an effect? It certainly did when I opened it in Photoshop. After removing the PHYS chunk, the screenshot looked a lot more normal in Photoshop... but it still had a little fuzzyness. So maybe it's the compression you're choosing for the PNG? All your PNG's are RGB... so that has lossy compression. Are you putting it down a little bit? Since these are screenshots of applications... I would recommend outputting Indexed PNG's instead of RGB. This has some advantages in this case... like smaller file sizes (only a few colours are being used in your screenshots)... plus it uses lossless compression, so your screenshots will not get blurry. Go to "Image/Mode/Indexed" before exporting the PNG. Reduce the colours to what you think is a little higher than what the screenshot is using... hopefully GIMP will detect unused colours and remove them. For dithering options... turn them off unless you have large areas of an image with gradients occuring. When you export the PNG... uncheck all boxes in the PNG options, and make sure compression is maximum. Try this stuff out, see what happens. BTW, search for a windows utility called TweakPNG. It's a great PNG utility... it gives you control over the internal workings of a PNG. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of squareyes Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 4:44 AM To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: [Gimp-user] Crisper screen shots Hi all, am making up a newbies help file for Ubuntu, but am not completely happy with the crispness of the screen shots I have taken with "gimp". Is there any way of improving them very much. May be too critical, but as it's my first work would like it to look more professional than I really am. http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/squareyes/ubuntu.html Many thanks in advance Take care Winton _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
