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Originally Posted by McGraw
I do a lot of screenshotting for another forum I frequent.
At the moment I capture the image as a bitmap and then process, crop and convert to JPEG with Photoshop.
Would I be better of capturing directly as a JPEG using a different capture program and just do the processing and cropping without having to go through the conversion process?
I'm going to experiment myself but would appreciate any thoughts.
I'm not bothered about how easy things are to do, only the end result.
Thanks very much.
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No, saving it as a uncompressed bitmap gives you the best quality image, and particularly will keep the quality better as you process the image.
It's really only worth saving straight to .jpg if you're not going to process it, and you won't need to refer back to the original image later.
That's for optimum quality, of course: you may find that .jpg format from the start is adequate to your needs. But there is always some image quality loss with .jpg, even if it's not noticeable.