Tuesday, February 27, 2007

How to properly capture screenshots for a spec

- Open the file in PS
- Crop down to the UI element to be doc'd
- Convert to index color
- Set the image dimensions in the Image Size dialog box in increments of 100 percent (set the droplist value to "percentage")
- Set the resample image droplsit menu to Nearest Neighbor to ensure pixel accuracy
- Do the redlining/annotations in PS itself (create a new layer, etc.)
- Save that as a PNG (flattened)
- Import it into Word (which will likely have its own set of issues, but that's a separate problem :-)

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