On 17 May 2012 08:37, Thorsten Wilms <t...@freenet.de> wrote: > On 05/16/2012 07:21 PM, Andrew Montag wrote: > >> I think it may be useful to highlight portions of screenshots. We could >> put an orange oval around text or a button, or maybe blur or grey all >> but one section of the screenshot to draw the readers attention to it. >> > > One could perhaps differentiate between > - marking an area > - by framing > - by modifying everything outside the area > - lower contrast > - change of brightness > - discoloration > - blur > - pointing to an element > > Perhaps some sort of numbering to indicate a sequence of operations...
> To highlight things like the folder/side-bar of Thunderbird, marking the > entire area would be appropriate. > > To highlight a specific icon in the Launcher, an arrow could work well. > > In all cases, repeating just the area of interest in a cropped image, > maybe scaled down if it is large, placed right next to the associated text, > would be an alternative. > > > For all styles that add sharp elements on top of the screenshot, using SVG > should be considered. Ideally the vector graphics would stay vector > graphics in the PDF. > > > The design of 1 or 2 highlighting methods should be based on concrete > needs. Do we have examples where a form of highlighting would be of > advantage? > > > > Tony
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