producing clear reduced screen grabs

I need to have some images of a software screen. I have been doing print screens and resizing (using image-image size), but they always end up looking blured.

How do I get small images of software screens that are the same quality as used in magazines etc? They always look small but clear, where mine are small and blured!

Thanks
Pete

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I need to have some images of a software screen. I have been doing print screens and resizing (using image-image size), but they always end up looking blured.

How do I get small images of software screens that are the same quality as used in magazines etc? They always look small but clear, where mine are small and blured!

Thanks
Pete

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I need to have some images of a software screen. I have been doing print screens and resizing (using image-image size), but they always end up looking blured.

How do I get small images of software screens that are the same quality as used in magazines etc? They always look small but clear, where mine are small and blured!

Thanks
Pete

'Shrink' by raising the dpi setting with re-sample turned off.

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I need to have some images of a software screen. I have been doing print screens and resizing (using image-image size), but they always end up looking blured.

How do I get small images of software screens that are the same quality as used in magazines etc? They always look small but clear, where mine are small and blured!

First of all, do not compare apples and oranges, so do not compare a printed screenshot @ 300 ppi with a resized screenshot on your monitor.

If you are talking about UPSIZING your screenshots, so you can print them at a higher resolution (that's what magazines do!), the standard method for upsizing is 'bicubic' or 'bicubic smoother' interpolation in Photoshop. However, for screenshots you should *not* use these methods, because they do indeed blur a bit. Instead, use 'nearest neighbor' even though you've probably learned that this is the most crude form of interpolation. It's is indeed the most crude one and that is exactly why it's good for screenshots. It simply doubles pixels without trying to generate intermediate ones, so all the lines in the screenshot stay crisp. Always use 200% or 400%, never anything in between.

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I need to have some images of a software screen. I have been doing print screens and resizing (using image-image size), but they always end up looking blured.

Are you using these screen grabs in print or on your computer screen?

Magazines reduce the size of the image using Image Size, with "Resample" turned OFF.

"Resample" means "change the number of pixels." If you have it turned on, you will reduce the number of pixels when you reduce the size of the image. For print, you don't want to do this.

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