Posting Pictures (screenshots)

[Jamonbread 222]

Hi everyone,

I was hoping someone could tell me what they are using to paste their screenshots into and upload to this site. I am using Microsoft paint and uploading with image shack and I am not happy with the quality. I'm looking to improve my city journal but the images look pixilated. Most journals I see have pictures with much better quality!

Any help would be much appreciated!

[jim 546 43]

Your problem would be using MS Paint, it has a pretty lame image rendering when importing. I suggest using GIMP found at gimp.org. Dodgy name, but it's free!

[Jamonbread 222]

Thanks for the quick reply! Much appreciated!

[Boggy1 45]

 The problem with Microsoft Paint is that it only saves to about 75% quality; in the JPEG format at least. Jpeg is known as a lossy format; meaning you are always going to loose some detail no matter what you do; however MSPaint saves it in less than optimum quality. 

 

As jim 546 said; you're going to want to have a better programme to save your screenshots in. I recommend either Paint.NET or the GIMP; both free software. GIMP has more features, but is far harder to learn (though all you are going to want to do is Save As...JPEG...100% quality). 

[Jamonbread 222]

Oh I have Paint.net except I cant paste my screenshots into it! Am I doing something wrong or is that not possible?

[Boggy1 45]

That sounds really odd. Granted I haven't used Paint.NET in ages, but if I recall you can paste screenshots easily into it. It should just be a case of Edit: Paste. You could try reinstalling it; that might work.

[Jamonbread 222]

I reinstalled and it worked! Thats odd isnt it? Anyway thanks, very happy with the results!