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How to make a screen capture at 350 dpi?

jorge dorlandojorge dorlando Posts: 1,159
edited December 2015 in The Commons

Hello!

I wanted to know:
there is a screen capture software "free" to capture / save at least 350 dpi?

I'm in windows 8.1
I used to paint the windows, but after more than 40 screenshots, is that I remembered the blessed dpi and found that I saved all at 72/96 dpi.
I use Gimp, not photoshop
thank you

Post edited by jorge dorlando on

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  • patience55patience55 Posts: 7,006
    edited December 2015

    SnagIt maybe ... free trial period ... and worth every penny IMHO to purchase. I don't have the latest to check the dpi.

    Edit to add: Seem to recall that monitors only "see" up to 96 so not sure how valid a screen capture is going to be above that save to add pixels for printing out the quality of a 96pixel. In which case taking the screen capture and resaving it to a higher resolution would amount to about the same thing.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,072

    What do you mean? PPI is just a number at the front of the fiel that says how big a pixel will be when printed, you can set it (without resampling) in your chosen image editor but it won't add anything to the captured image, just set its printed size.

  • jorge dorlandojorge dorlando Posts: 1,159
    edited December 2015
    Richard Haseltine said:

    What do you mean? PPI is just a number at the front of the fiel that says how big a pixel will be when printed, you can set it (without resampling) in your chosen image editor but it won't add anything to the captured image, just set its printed size.

    It's for a kindle ebook format. I need the screenshots why the ebook is a tutorial,
    last year when RScotJohns gave an interview in the forum Novica he mencinou 350 dpis ...
    I really would like to leave things as they are 72/96 dpi.

    but this can damage up front.

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  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,212

    If it is for an ebook and not print then you can set the PPI to zero and it wont make any difference to how it is viewed on a monitor or screen. The DPI you are seeing in Gimp is the screen resolution of your monitor and nothing else. A screen shot at 1000x800 pixels will only use that amount of pixels no matter the resolution of the screen it is being viewed on.

    e.g.

    on a 2000x1600 pixel screen it will be in the centre of the screen with a border around it.

    on an 800x600 screen the viewer will have to scroll the screen to view it.

  • StratDragonStratDragon Posts: 3,273
    jorge dorlando said:

    Hello!

    I wanted to know:
    there is a screen capture software "free" to capture / save at least 350 dpi?

    I'm in windows 8.1
    I used to paint the windows, but after more than 40 screenshots, is that I remembered the blessed dpi and found that I saved all at 72/96 dpi.
    I use Gimp, not photoshop
    thank you

    You will need to do your screen, bring it into an editing software package and make the change. Screen capture software does not add or create what's not there to begin with, in this case 350 dpi off of a capture.

  • jorge dorlandojorge dorlando Posts: 1,159
    StratDragon said:
    jorge dorlando said:

    Hello!

    I wanted to know:
    there is a screen capture software "free" to capture / save at least 350 dpi?

    I'm in windows 8.1
    I used to paint the windows, but after more than 40 screenshots, is that I remembered the blessed dpi and found that I saved all at 72/96 dpi.
    I use Gimp, not photoshop
    thank you

    You will need to do your screen, bring it into an editing software package and make the change. Screen capture software does not add or create what's not there to begin with, in this case 350 dpi off of a I

    I understand that point .But I can only have only one version of gimp, open at a time. While working on it, I need to capture it to another location ... I tried to open two gimp, one to go creating and another to edit screens, but will not, always back for the first gimp...I downloaded the SnagIt, which patience55 indicated ... I am testing it agora.Eu'm seeing some interesting things in it, I have to be quick because it is trial

     

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