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Dear Scrapbook: Screw you, too.

posted by [personal profile] stunt_muppet at 09:06pm on 17/03/2009 under ,
So, other people who take screencaps: I have a question for you.

I may have mentioned that I'm trying to cap The Three Doctors. While I'm mostly doing it for my own enjoyment and to have a handy image resource pool at the ready, I'd also like for the caps to be usable for wallpapers, icons, and the like should someone else decide to use them.

The caps, in the raw, are bitmap files, which a) are huge and b) won't upload to Scrapbook. They need to be converted into JPEGs, TIFF files, or PNG files. So far as I understand (and my knowledge of file formats is limited) TIFF and PNG are lossless and allow for the best image preservation, but the screencaps, even from the DVD, aren't exactly high-definition by today's video standards, and could probably survive the conversion to JPEG without undue quality loss. Plus, I'm pretty sure the screenshots on the Tragical History Tour are JPEGs, and I've seen icons and banners made from them that look perfectly fine.

So, cappers, icon-makers, and miscellaneous other image-workers, what file format should I go with for the caps? The JPEGs that I've got so far seem fine, but I don't know what the etiquette is on this, if there is any.


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posted by [identity profile] kayliemalinza.livejournal.com at 01:46am on 18/03/2009
I think most people are used to jpgs.
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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 02:03am on 18/03/2009
jpegs it is, then. Which is good, because they take up way less hard drive space.
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posted by [identity profile] kayliemalinza.livejournal.com at 02:19am on 18/03/2009
Yah. I think the only time I ever use bmps is for desktop backgrounds, actually. ^^
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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 02:23am on 18/03/2009
Do you think it'd be okay to delete the bitmaps, or should I keep them around in a zipped file? I can't think of any other use for them if jpegs are an acceptable image quality, but I also feel like there's some reason I shouldn't get rid of the "negatives", as it were.
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posted by [identity profile] kayliemalinza.livejournal.com at 02:24am on 18/03/2009
Keep 'em on an external or a disc, if you like, but now that you'd figured out how screencap it's not like they can be lost forever. ^^
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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 02:25am on 18/03/2009
Fair point - enough clicking and I'm sure I can get the same image or similar. :)

Thanks for all your help!
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posted by [identity profile] glock35gal.livejournal.com at 02:58am on 18/03/2009
While my boyfriend is all about the TIFF files, I'm decidedly not -- because too many programs don't import TIF/TIFF files. Go with jpegs/jpgs, because not only are they usually very high quality images, you can compress them (for fast loading on websites) without a lot of lost quality.
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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 03:50am on 18/03/2009
Yeah, I've never used TIFFs myself, not because my programs wouldn't take them but because JPEG worked just as easily (or, on occasion, because the graphics program in question required a specialized file format that had to be compressed into a JPEG anyway). And these aren't super-high-resolution caps we're talking, so every pixel of every image probably doesn't need to be frozen in place.

Thanks for the advice!
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