PM: Heroic Sha of Pride Kill Screenshots 11/5/13

[Sublime]

Another great Heroic kill! Woot Pac-man!

[Tigridia]

Is Photobucket resizing your images to a width of 1024 px? That's not really enough for the main page. Need at least 1600 px, so try to use a service that does not resize and recompress the images.

If you'll notice, the last two screenshots on the main page look rather blurry.

Do you still have the originals? Prefer the ones that haven't been photoshopped.

[Sublime]

I have noticed they seem more blurry than ones I've done in the past. I don't remember past screenshots I've posted from Photobucket looking so bad. I do save all the originals so if you know of a better method please let me know. I'll also research it, see if I can find a better method.

[Gnomemages]

Correct me if I am wrong but the only way to get exactly 1600px wide is to either have a monitor with that resolution or upsize the picture in photoshop.

[Tigridia]

Anything at or greater than 1600 px is acceptable. I think most people play on screens larger than that. If it's larger than 1920 I will downscale it.

Compression artifacts are the cause of much of the blurriness, so ideally you would save screenshots in a format that supports lossless compression, like PNG. If you have to use JPEG, set quality to max.

Evey time a JPEG file is saved it loses quality, so the trick is to not save as JPEG until the last possible moment.

[Sublime]

Gotcha. I went back and looked at the originals and they are indeed above 1600 (1680) so Photobucket is probably shrinking them. I'll check for a setting or a better image hosting site all together. I was saving in JPEG at max quality through Photoshop after adding the text, I'll stop doing that and use a different format like PNG. Hopefully between fixing the px, not adding text and using a better format they will come out a bit clearer. Thanks for the info/help and I apologize for the trouble.

[Buy]

grats pm!

p.s. where's gnome? can't see him, he's too tiny

[Tigridia]

WoW will compress screenshots too if you use its built-in screenshot feature. Its default quality setting is an abysmal 3/10. Add

SET screenshotQuality "10"

to your Config.wtf file to fix it.

If you're on a Mac, you can ignore all this as long as you use Cmd-Shift-3 to take pictures. This keyboard shortcut saves a screenshot to the desktop in pixel perfect PNG format.