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How do I take screen shots at my displays native pixel density? ...NOT 72 PPI!
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<blockquote data-quote="Doug b" data-source="post: 1261272" data-attributes="member: 59143"><p>PPI for VIDEO (as in the monitor that you, and everybody else is viewing the web on, no matter what kind or size of monitor) is irrelevant, and the notion that PPI matters is absolutely false and a HUGE misconception. The ONLY thing that matters is <u><strong>resolution</strong></u>, but resolution of a picture and not the screen. This also goes for scanning. </p><p></p><p>Your monitor, my monitor and everybody's monitor ignores PPI/DPI values, because those things are only defined for PAPER. The real issue I believe, is how much the screen shot is compressed. You can change the dpi/ppi values all you want (if you could) but that wouldn't make a bit of difference on a monitor. </p><p></p><p>There are more than a few articles on the web which you can Google, that explains what I'm saying in much more detail. A quote from the article I'll post right below it: Read the article, it's pretty good and goes into detail. It was a random one I had come across when searching for what I wanted to explain:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.scantips.com/no72dpi.html" target="_blank">Say No to 72 dpi</a></p><p></p><p>Fairly long article, and page 2 has really good info so try and read the whole thing. </p><p></p><p>Doug</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doug b, post: 1261272, member: 59143"] PPI for VIDEO (as in the monitor that you, and everybody else is viewing the web on, no matter what kind or size of monitor) is irrelevant, and the notion that PPI matters is absolutely false and a HUGE misconception. The ONLY thing that matters is [U][B]resolution[/B][/U], but resolution of a picture and not the screen. This also goes for scanning. Your monitor, my monitor and everybody's monitor ignores PPI/DPI values, because those things are only defined for PAPER. The real issue I believe, is how much the screen shot is compressed. You can change the dpi/ppi values all you want (if you could) but that wouldn't make a bit of difference on a monitor. There are more than a few articles on the web which you can Google, that explains what I'm saying in much more detail. A quote from the article I'll post right below it: Read the article, it's pretty good and goes into detail. It was a random one I had come across when searching for what I wanted to explain: [URL="http://www.scantips.com/no72dpi.html"]Say No to 72 dpi[/URL] Fairly long article, and page 2 has really good info so try and read the whole thing. Doug [/QUOTE]
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