Widescreen mode - screenshots too big now?

[castor troy]

Hi

While I liked to take screenshots for my AAR in the old, small 4:3 windowed mode, I have now the problem that a screenshot taken while playing at 1980x1080 full screen has about 1MB which is five times too big to be uploaded. How do people avoid this problem? I tried to resize it but it looked just awful then.

Note, this is not a whine about the new 16:9 full screen modes... just can´t figure out how to use the screenshots now...

[LoBaron]

Check the format of your screenshot.
print screen likes to save a bmp file and that is too large.
Open with paint and resave as jpeg.

[dorjun driver]

[ol][*]Use the different compression algorithms available in Gimp (free) and/or Photoshop ($).[*]Try capturing only the area of interest via PicPick or other screen capture utility.[*]Goto 3*[/ol]* apologies to Edsger Dijkstra

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: LoBaron

Check the format of your screenshot.
print screen likes to save a bmp file and that is too large.
Open with paint and resave as jpeg.

that´s exactly what is happening and what I´m doing. Same as I´ve done in the past. Ending up with jpeg size 1MB+ now. The only thing that has changed is I´ve taken screenshots from windowed mode (1080x something) before and am now taking screens from 1980x1080 full screen.

[LoBaron]

I havent done a screenshot post patch.
 
But dorjun driver is right, try gimp.

[jwilkerson]

ORIGINAL: castor troy
Note, this is not a whine about the new 16:9 full screen modes... just can´t figure out how to use the screenshots now...

CT if it is possible to have a problem - you seem to take the cake - are you a "problem magnet" ??? If you need a testing job someday - just let us know! [:D]

I don't know what you're doing differently from me, but as you can see in my AAR my 1920x1200 screen shots, which I copy to paint and save as jpeg, are working fine.

If you can't find any other way, the crop your image just a bit in paint before you save and see if that helps, maybe you are right on the edge, but according to my arithmetic your screen shot size should have a few less pixels than mine, on average, and I haven't had an issue (yet). We've even seen a few large screen shots as well posted here.

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

ORIGINAL: castor troy
Note, this is not a whine about the new 16:9 full screen modes... just can´t figure out how to use the screenshots now...

CT if it is possible to have a problem - you seem to take the cake - are you a "problem magnet" ??? If you need a testing job someday - just let us know! [:D]

I don't know what you're doing differently from me, but as you can see in my AAR my 1920x1200 screen shots, which I copy to paint and save as jpeg, are working fine.

If you can't find any other way, the crop your image just a bit in paint before you save and see if that helps, maybe you are right on the edge, but according to my arithmetic your screen shot size should have a few less pixels than mine, on average, and I haven't had an issue (yet). We've even seen a few large screen shots as well posted here.

sorry Joe, perhaps it´s just bad karma. Or it´s a penalty for my ranting? [;)]

I know your wonderful full screen screenshots you had posted in your AAR when you released the good news about the new graphic modes and I tried to do the same, unfortunetely I´m ending up with 1MB bmp now instead of the 200KB like before. Other than changing the game from the old 4:3 windowed mode to full screen high resolution mode now I have done nothing and am not taking the screenshots differently either. I´ve only noticed lately as I wanted to upload a full screen screenshot and couldn´t and wondered why, just to find out that the jpg had 1MB instead of the 200KB I was used to.

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: LoBaron

I havent done a screenshot post patch.

But dorjun driver is right, try gimp.

yeah, will have to use a screenshot programme again, I used to just press "print" and paste it into mspaint to work on it and save it as a jpeg. Doesn´t work for me anymore.

[Shark7]

ORIGINAL: LoBaron

Check the format of your screenshot.
print screen likes to save a bmp file and that is too large.
Open with paint and resave as jpeg.

Most graphic programs will also let you cut down the quality of a .jpg image to help reduce the file size.

Widescreen sure is pretty though. [:)]

[Dili]

With Xnview(freeware) you have a lot of easy options, resize, crop, variable quality.

[Mistmatz]

I recommend paint.net
Just save as JPEG and lower the quality until you have the desired file size.

[Reg]

Irfanview gets my vote. 1920x1200 screenshot saves as a 256Kb jpg file at 85% compression.

Also allows you to resize, crop, reduce color depth or save in any format you could want.

[skrewball]

Or you can just Microsoft paint.

Right click on the picture. Open with MSPaint. On the tool bar go to Image -->Stretch/Skew and set to the stretch to 25-50% it will shrink it by that size.