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Screenshot Captor / Re: JPG Compression Bug in version 4.12.0
« on: July 26, 2015, 02:20 PM »Thanks for your clear comments. Sounds like I must have lost the Save As quality option somewhere along the line -- I will try to put it back, and make sure it defaults to the option set in the configuration.Great.-mouser (July 26, 2015, 10:49 AM)
And i'll have a look at the quality setting range -- maybe i can tweak it.I did a few more tests. Min compression/Max quality is fine. The next step looks already like 7/8 of 12 in Photoshop or about ~70/75% in most other programs. One more step and you're at about 60% quality compared to other programs. After that the steps seem to get smaller and smaller. With 10 steps on the quality slider I somehow expected linear 10% or smaller steps from min to max compression.-mouser (July 26, 2015, 10:49 AM)
ps. You probably know that screenshots should almost never be saved in jpg format -- that png is going to be more appropriate in almost every case.I'd say that depends on the content. I was capturing video previews from a website. These screenshots contain a little text and multiple images (which are medium quality JPGs to begin with). Compared to max quality JPG the PNGs are 4 to 5 times bigger with no visible difference in quality. PNG makes no sense here.-mouser (July 26, 2015, 10:49 AM)
Also, to post screenshots of something in a forum, for example to explain or discuss software features, PNG is often unnecessary as well.
I usually only use PNG when it's smaller or when quality is more important than size.
(I guess I spent just too much time optimizing website images for size to keep mobile users with limited bandwidth and volume happy )