gartzen Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 I've been taking some shots of OSX installed on my PC, and I've seen that the quality of this screenshots is quite lower than the ones I take in windows. Here's an example, compare between the two pics. Windows Shot OS X 10.4.3 Shot I'm using an ATI X600 P-IV 3GHz 2Gb RAM I hope someone can help.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8548-low-quality-screenshots/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 I think that Mac OS X is set up for more compressed files by default, do not know if it could be modified since they are png, I'll search. OT: De dónde eres? Conozco a un Gartzen de Toluca. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8548-low-quality-screenshots/#findComment-53064 Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaiOSX Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 Windows captures in BMP and OS X Tiger captures in PNG by default. You can change it in tiger by reading this hint : http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?sto...ge+capture+tiff tiff or tga won't affect the picture. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8548-low-quality-screenshots/#findComment-53066 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ouch Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 What happened to mac os taking shots in pdf format? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8548-low-quality-screenshots/#findComment-53074 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wesley Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 That changed when we moved to Tiger, apparently. PNG is lossless, but unless you're specifically using 24-bit PNG you'll get to 8-bit PNG and end up with lost colours. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8548-low-quality-screenshots/#findComment-53152 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takuro Posted February 6, 2006 Share Posted February 6, 2006 I opened Grab and actually set it to save as BMP... and still got the same weird cruddy screenshots I've always gotten. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8548-low-quality-screenshots/#findComment-53241 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gartzen Posted February 6, 2006 Author Share Posted February 6, 2006 The truth is I tried with a lot of formats, seeing that the best shots are with the PNG format, and the shots are like the one I showed above... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8548-low-quality-screenshots/#findComment-53469 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiberia Posted February 6, 2006 Share Posted February 6, 2006 that fuzzy screenshot thing has been reported since the beginning. its either A- because our gfx drivers don't work, your're grabbing a vga thing instead of a proper framebuffer thing(???) or B- apple have encoded some stuff in there, so they know when a developer edition screenshot appears on the net. either way, everyone has the same problem (does this happen with the iMacs? can someone try it?) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8548-low-quality-screenshots/#findComment-53500 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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