Screenprint question??

[Druk]

If I take a screenprint of a Google map then paste it into a Paint program, then 'save' it for storage to Photobucket eventually to post a link on here the act of 'saving' it results in it being too small (physically) to be of any use.

As per this... http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/feedback-testing/95004-test-pic.html#post1041915

Any ideas on how to keep it a decent screen size?

Even if I get rid of the borders the map part stays the same.

Posting a link from the Google page is no good cos I want to highlight points on the map in Paint.



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[BTB 500]

The image will be the same size as the screen that you took a screen shot of. I.e. if your desktop is 1024x768 pixels (say) and you capture that, the image will be 1024x768.

Are you sure you're not resizing it when you save in Paint? Or that it's not being resized when uploaded to PhotoBucket?

 

[KillerHERTZ]

How about this?:

 

[Druk]

The image will be the same size as the screen that you took a screen shot of. I.e. if your desktop is 1024x768 pixels (say) and you capture that, the image will be 1024x768.

Are you sure you're not resizing it when you save in Paint? Or that it's not being resized when uploaded to PhotoBucket?

If I'm resizing it Bill it is doing it itself unasked. All I'm doing is >File>Paste> in paint and the image appears. It's when I 'Save as' to 'my pictures' as a jpeg that it reduces and then you only notice it when it's then opened.

TBH. I don't understand 'pixels': just that if a pic is 3.0mb it's too big and if it's 50kb it's too wee.

 

[Druk]

How about this?:

That would be great although preferably without the camera symbols (fussy bu&&er). How did you do that?

What I need is to get that into Photodraw so I can mess with it then transfer it to P/bucket without loosing any of the size.

 

[BTB 500]

If I'm resizing it Bill it is doing it itself unasked. All I'm doing is >File>Paste> in paint and the image appears. It's when I 'Save as' to 'my pictures' as a jpeg that it reduces and then you only notice it when it's then opened.

TBH. I don't understand 'pixels': just that if a pic is 3.0mb it's too big and if it's 50kb it's too wee.

Pictures have two things.

First, dimensions in pixels. Pixels are the 'dots' that make up the screen image. If your monitor displays 1024 x 768 pixels then a picture which is (say) 1000 x 500 pixels will almost completely fill the screen. For comfortable viewing on forums etc. you generally want pictures about 800 pixels maximum width or height.

The second thing is the file size in bytes (or kb, or mb - thousands, and millions, of bytes respectively). This is loosely linked to the image dimensions, but depends on other things ... principally what 'compression factor' is applied when you save an image in a compressed format (JPEG - .jpg - is the most common). A low compression factor gives a good quality image but a large file size, a high compression factor gives a 'grainy' or 'noisy' picture, but a much smaller file size.

Paint probably doesn't give you any control over any of the above, so what it does when you save is anyone's guess