Comments on: Taking Screenshots for your Blog http://blog.hanfordlemoore.com/2006/01/09/taking-screenshots-for-your-blog User Interface , Art, Design, Games Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:11:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Taking Screenshots for your Blog by: Yuhong Bao http://blog.hanfordlemoore.com/2006/01/09/taking-screenshots-for-your-blog#comment-183269 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:16:31 +0000 http://blog.hanfordlemoore.com/2006/01/09/taking-screenshots-for-your-blog#comment-183269 Also LCDs take less space on desks. Also LCDs take less space on desks.

]]> Comment on Taking Screenshots for your Blog by: Henrik Erlandsson http://blog.hanfordlemoore.com/2006/01/09/taking-screenshots-for-your-blog#comment-165212 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:54:38 +0000 http://blog.hanfordlemoore.com/2006/01/09/taking-screenshots-for-your-blog#comment-165212 Cleartype has nothing to do with LCDs. It was invented way before they became a reality. Take a look at the phosphor mask of a CRT, and you'll see that it, too, is built up of 3 'subpixels'. Also, CRTs have less flicker than corresponding-price LCDs. I doubt even the cheap $250 ones need to go below 100Hz at 1280x1024. Usually, CRT flicker appears when the user hasn't selected a proper frequency from the default 60Hz. CRTs also do not suffer hideous überflicker when scrolling web pages with pattern backgrounds. LCDs are usually overcontrast, unforgivingly, brain-piercingly sharp things set to be oversaturated by the manufacturer to give 'vibrant' images. Press your CRT's menu button and select 80% brightness and 100% contrast for the same effect. CRTs have much faster response and no ghosting, which makes things that move or scroll smoothly look smooth and not crappy. Or rather, it does have ghosting, but one that isn't dependent on the amount of color change and is much faster, which makes it work in the same way the film makers do motion blur to make camera movements smooth in 20-25 fps films. LCDs make low cost underpowered PCs look sleek and new. Which is fine for the word processor crowd. But people that try to do something advanced will find out that CRTs can go the distance. Cleartype has nothing to do with LCDs. It was invented way before they became a reality. Take a look at the phosphor mask of a CRT, and you’ll see that it, too, is built up of 3 ‘subpixels’.

Also, CRTs have less flicker than corresponding-price LCDs. I doubt even the cheap $250 ones need to go below 100Hz at – . Usually, CRT flicker appears when the user hasn’t selected a proper frequency from the default 60Hz.

CRTs also do not suffer hideous überflicker when scrolling web pages with pattern backgrounds.

LCDs are usually overcontrast, unforgivingly, brain-piercingly sharp things set to be oversaturated by the manufacturer to give ‘vibrant’ images. Press your CRT’s menu button and select 80% brightness and 100% contrast for the same effect.

CRTs have much faster response and no ghosting, which makes things that move or scroll smoothly look smooth and not crappy. Or rather, it does have ghosting, but one that isn’t dependent on the amount of color change and is much faster, which makes it work in the same way the film makers do motion blur to make camera movements smooth in 20-25 fps films.

LCDs make low cost underpowered PCs look sleek and new. Which is fine for the word processor crowd. But people that try to do something advanced will find out that CRTs can go the distance.

]]> Comment on Taking Screenshots for your Blog by: Evert http://blog.hanfordlemoore.com/2006/01/09/taking-screenshots-for-your-blog#comment-27294 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:29:51 +0000 http://blog.hanfordlemoore.com/2006/01/09/taking-screenshots-for-your-blog#comment-27294 That screenshot looks bad here too (on a tft) seems like its mainly the jpeg artifact thats causing problems.. but idk.. no crt's with GUI's here That screenshot looks bad here too (on a tft)

seems like its mainly the jpeg artifact thats causing problems.. but idk.. no crt’s with GUI’s here

]]> Comment on Taking Screenshots for your Blog by: Frank Mash http://blog.hanfordlemoore.com/2006/01/09/taking-screenshots-for-your-blog#comment-90 Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:49:48 +0000 http://blog.hanfordlemoore.com/2006/01/09/taking-screenshots-for-your-blog#comment-90 Hello Hanford, After reading your comment on my blog I decided to stop by your blog and really enjoyed reading this article. It is pretty amazing that even companies like Google can fail to take clean and crisp screenshots. Recently, the print screen button on my Win XP wasn't working so I downloaded a screen shot utility which optimizes the screen shots before saving them. I noticed the same problem with the screen shots, i.e. they weren't crisp (even on my monitor). Upon a little investigation I found that the screen shot utility was saving the screen shots in an optimized format (JPG 70%). Since I needed to edit the shots in photoshop, I raised the quality of JPG and voila! all my screen shots were crisp from that point on. I have been working on a project called OpenEncyclopaedia.com (OE) and after making this comment I am going to contribute a link to this post to OE (hope that's OK with you). Frank Mash Hello Hanford,

After reading your comment on my blog I decided to stop by your blog and really enjoyed reading this article. It is pretty amazing that even companies like Google can fail to take clean and crisp screenshots.

Recently, the print screen button on my Win XP wasn’t working so I downloaded a screen shot utility which optimizes the screen shots before saving them. I noticed the same problem with the screen shots, i.e. they weren’t crisp (even on my monitor). Upon a little investigation I found that the screen shot utility was saving the screen shots in an optimized format (JPG 70%). Since I needed to edit the shots in photoshop, I raised the quality of JPG and voila! all my screen shots were crisp from that point on.

I have been working on a project called OpenEncyclopaedia.com (OE) and after making this comment I am going to contribute a link to this post to OE (hope that’s OK with you).

Frank Mash

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